Chamac means “be violent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2554 — kakopoieo in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2554 חָמַס (chamac) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chamac (khaw-mas') v. 1. to be violent 2. (by implication) to maltreat It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include shake, bare, do, away, and violence. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chamac (khaw-mas') v. 1. to be violent 2. (by implication) to maltreat [a primitive root] KJV: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2554. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to injure
Usage: 1) to wrong, do violence to, treat violently, do wrongly 1a) (Qal) to treat violently, do wrong 1a1) of physical wrong 1a2) of ethical wrong 1a3) of physical and ethical wrong 1b) (Niphal) to be treated violently
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chamac, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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8 indexed usages in Old Testament.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2554.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2554, grouped by book.
Chamac (Strong's H2554) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be violent". chamac (khaw-mas') v. 1. to be violent 2. (by implication) to maltreat
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's H2554 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2554 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as shake, bare, do, away, and violence. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.