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Strong's H2555 חָמָס (chamac)

Chamac means “wrong” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2555 — kakopoios (“malefactor”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2555
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 59
Books 20

Strong's H2555 Quick Answer

Strong's H2555 חָמָס (chamac) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chamac (khaw-mawce') n-m. 1. violence 2. (by implication) wrong It has 59 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include violence, false, wrong, my, and cruel. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chamac (khaw-mawce') n-m. 1. violence 2. (by implication) wrong
Usage
59 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
violence, false, wrong, my, and cruel

Meaning and Definition

chamac (khaw-mawce') n-m. 1. violence 2. (by implication) wrong 3. (by meton.) unjust gain [from H2554] KJV: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, X oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong. Root(s): H2554

Original Word
חָמָס
Transliteration
chamac
Derivation
Root: חמס First root strongs: 2554
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2555. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2555 Is Translated

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.

violence Genesis 6:11 38× false Exodus 23:1 wrong Deuteronomy 19:16 My Genesis 16:5 cruel Psalms 25:19 damage Proverbs 26:6

How Strong's H2555 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 59 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2555 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2555 in the Old Testament

59 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 6:11 KJV

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 6:13 KJV

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 16:5 KJV

And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

Usage Excerpts

First 59 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2555.

Genesis 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:13 Old Testament, KJV
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
Genesis 49:5 Old Testament, KJV
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Exodus 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Deuteronomy 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Judges 9:24 Old Testament, KJV
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
2 Samuel 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel 22:49 Old Testament, KJV
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
1 Chronicles 12:17 Old Testament, KJV
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
Job 16:17 Old Testament, KJV
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job 19:7 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Psalms 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalms 11:5 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psalms 18:48 Old Testament, KJV
He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
Psalms 25:19 Old Testament, KJV
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 35:11 Old Testament, KJV
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalms 55:9 Old Testament, KJV
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 58:2 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 72:14 Old Testament, KJV
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Psalms 73:6 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psalms 74:20 Old Testament, KJV
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms 140:1 Old Testament, KJV
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psalms 140:4 Old Testament, KJV
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psalms 140:11 Old Testament, KJV
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Proverbs 3:31 Old Testament, KJV
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 4:17 Old Testament, KJV
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 13:2 Old Testament, KJV
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Proverbs 16:29 Old Testament, KJV
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 26:6 Old Testament, KJV
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Isaiah 53:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 59:6 Old Testament, KJV
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Isaiah 60:18 Old Testament, KJV
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Jeremiah 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Jeremiah 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Jeremiah 51:35 Old Testament, KJV
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah 51:46 Old Testament, KJV
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Ezekiel 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Ezekiel 7:23 Old Testament, KJV
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 8:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel 12:19 Old Testament, KJV
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 28:16 Old Testament, KJV
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel 45:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Joel 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Amos 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos 6:3 Old Testament, KJV
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
Obadiah 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Jonah 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Micah 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Habakkuk 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Habakkuk 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Habakkuk 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Habakkuk 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Zephaniah 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Malachi 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2555, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 14 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 7 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 5 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2555 FAQ

What does chamac (חָמָס) mean?

Chamac (Strong's H2555) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "wrong". chamac (khaw-mawce') n-m. 1. violence 2. (by implication) wrong

How many times is chamac (חָמָס) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 59 linked usages for Strong's H2555 across 20 books.

Where can I study chamac (חָמָס) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2555 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chamac (חָמָס)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as violence, false, wrong, my, cruel, and damage. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.