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# חָמוֹץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2541

**the ruthless** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

the ruthless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2541/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָמוֹץ: the ruthless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2541/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] coll. the ruthless—only אַשְּׁרוּ ח׳ Is 1:17 set right the ruthless, so Hi Ew Kn De Che Di; Vrss give passive (perhaps חָמוּץ) hence AV relieve the oppressed; but on form חָמוֹץ = doer of action v. Ew§ 152 b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] oppressor (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.17/#tree)

לִמְד֥וּ הֵיטֵ֛ב דִּרְשׁ֥וּ מִשְׁפָּ֖ט אַשְּׁר֣וּ חָמ֑וֹץ שִׁפְט֣וּ יָת֔וֹם רִ֖יבוּ אַלְמָנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* learn to.do.good seek justice set.right \[the\].oppressor vindicate \[the\].fatherless conduct.a.case.for \[the\].widow

*JPS 1917:* Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2541.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2541/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).