BDB2872 [H2554]

[חָמַס] verb treat violently, wrong (Late Hebrew id., act violently, treat violently; Aramaic חֲמַס (rare) violently seize; Arabic is be hard, strict, rigorous) —

Qal Perfect 3 plural חָֽמְסוּ Ezek 22:26; Zeph 3:4 Imperfect יַחְמֹס Job 15:33, וַיַּחְמֹס Lam 2:6 תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Job 21:27; Jer 22:3 Participle חֹמֵס Prov 8:36 — treat violently, wrong; —

1. of physical wrong: ׳תַּחְ Jer 22:3 (|| תֹּנוּ) of wrong to widows and orphans; כַּגַּן שֻׂכּוֺ ׳וַיַּח Lam 2:6 and hath done violence to his pavilion as to a garden (|| שִׁחֵת מֹעֲדוֺ); so, figurative, of vine, wrong, i.e. fail to nourish, kill כַּגֶּפֶן ׳יַח בִּסְרוֺ Job 15:33.

2. of ethical wrong, object תּוֺרָה Zeph 3:4; Exod 22:26 (both || חִלֵּל קֹדֶשׁ); compare מְזִמּוֺת עָלֵי תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Job 21:27 the devices (wherewith) ye do me violence.

3. both physical and ethical חֹטְאִי חֹמֵס נַפְשׁוֺ Prov 8:36. Niph`al Perfect 3 plural נֶחְמְסוּ Jer 13:22 thy heels suffer violence (|| נִגְלוּ שׁוּלַיִךְ).

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