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חָמַץ

cha.mats

to oppress

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Strong’s H2556cVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the ruthless1

In the text

Psalm 71:4וְחוֹמֵץ
Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חמץ] vb. be ruthless—only Qal Pt. ψ 71:4

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.