חָמַס
châmaç · khaw-mas'
to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
- to be violent
- by implication, to maltreat
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to support and uphold
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to support and uphold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָמַס above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- he shall shake off1 · 13%
- which ye wrongfully imagine1 · 13%
- against me wrongeth1 · 13%
- made bare1 · 13%
- do no violence1 · 13%
- and he hath violently taken away1 · 13%
- have violated1 · 13%
- they have done violence1 · 13%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.