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Job 15:33
“He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חָמַסchâmaç · khaw-mas'
H2554 · Hebrew
H2554 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
- Grammar
- יַחְמֹ֣ס — verb Qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 8 times in the Hebrew Bible.Job 21:27Proverbs 8:36Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 22:3Lamentations 2:6
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חָמַס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.