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title: חָמַס — treat violently · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָמַס (2554), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: treat violently. BDB 1906: vb. treat violenty, wrong. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָמַס

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«חָמַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **treat violently** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 2554 · **BDB:** חָמַס

### Glosses

\[is\].treating.violently (1); he.has.treated.violently (1); he.will.treat.violently (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

treat violently [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2554/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. treat violenty, wrong [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2554/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. treat violenty, wrong (NH id., act violently, treat violently; Aramaic חֲמַס (rare) violently seize; Arabic حَمِسَ is be hard, strict, rigorous)— Pf. 3 pl. חָֽמְסוּ Ez 22:26; Zp 3:4; Impf. יַחְמֹס Jb 15:33, וַיַּחְמֹם La 2:6; תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Jb 21:27; Je 22:3; Pt. חֹמֵס Pr 8:36;—treat violently, wrong;— of physical wrong: תַּחְ׳ Je 22:3 (‖ תֹּנוּ) of wrong to widows and orphans; וַיַּח׳ כַּגַּן שֻׂכּוֹ La 2:6 and hath done violence to his pavilion as to a garden (‖ שִׁחֵת מֹעֲדוֹ); so, fig., of vine, wrong, i.e. fail to nourish, kill יַח׳ כַּגֶּפֶן בִּסְרוֹ Jb 15:33. of ethical wrong, obj. תּוֹרָה Zp 3:4; Ez 22:26 (both ‖ חִלֵּל קֹדֶשׁ); cf. מְזִמּוֹת עָלַי תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Jb 21:27 the devices (wherewith) ye do me violence. both physical and ethical חֹטְאִי חֹמֵס נַפְשׁוֹ Pr 8:36. Pf. 3 pl. נֶחְמְסוּ Je 13:22 thy heels suffer violence (‖ נִגְלוּ שׁוּלַיִךְ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָמַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2554/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 21:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.27/)

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הֵ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וּ֝מְזִמּ֗וֹת עָלַ֥י תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃

*Word for word:* here! I.know thoughts your and.\[the\] schemes \[which\].on me you.do.violence

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

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[Proverbs 8:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.36/)

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וְֽ֭חֹטְאִי חֹמֵ֣ס נַפְשׁ֑וֹ כָּל־מְ֝שַׂנְאַ֗י אָ֣הֲבוּ מָֽוֶת׃פ

*Word for word:* and \[one who\].misses.me \[is\].treating.violently self his all \[those who\].hate.me they.love death

*JPS 1917:* But he that misseth me wrongeth his own soul; all they that hate me love death.'

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