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Lamentations 2:6
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּחְמֹ֤ס — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 8 times in the Hebrew Bible.Job 15:33Job 21:27Proverbs 8:36Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 22:3
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.