2 Samuel 22:49
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
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Violent
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Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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חָמָס
châmâç · khaw-mawce'
7 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
violence; by implication, wrong; by metonymy unjust gain
Strong's KJV usage: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, × oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:49Strong's last: Proverbs 16:29
Open full H2555 profile →βιαστής
biastḗs · bee-as-tace'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a forcer, i.e. (figuratively) energetic
Strong's KJV usage: :--violent.
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Strong's first: Matthew 11:12Strong's last: Matthew 11:12
Open full G973 profile →גֵּזֶל
gêzel · ghe'-zel
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
plunder, i.e. violence
Strong's KJV usage: violence, violent perverting.. gozal. See 1469.
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Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 5:8Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 5:8
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ʻârîyts · aw-reets'
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
fearful, i.e. powerful or tyrannical
Strong's KJV usage: mighty, oppressor, in great power, strong, terrible, violent.
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Strong's first: Psalms 86:14Strong's last: Psalms 86:14
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And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
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violent
VI'OLENT, adjective [Latin violentus.
1. Forcible; moving or acting with physical strength; urged or driven with force; as a violent wind; a violent stream; a violent assault or blow; a violent conflict.
2. Vehement; outrageous; as a violent attack on the minister.
3. Produced or continued by force; not spontaneous or natural.
No violent state can be perpetual.
4. Produced by violence; not natural; as a violent death.
5. Acting by violence; assailant; not authorized.
Some violent hands were laid on Humphry's life.
6. Fierce; vehement; as a violent philippic; a violent remonstrance.
We might be reckoned fierce and violent
7. Severe; extreme; as violent pains.
8. Extorted; not voluntary.
Vows made in pain, are violent and void.
Violent presumption, in law, is presumption that arises from circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. Such circumstances being proved, the mind infers with confidence that the fact has taken place, and this confidence is a violent presumption, which amounts to proof.
VI'OLENT, noun An assailant. [Not in use.]
VI'OLENT, verb transitive To urge with violence. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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