חָמַס châmaç — to be violent
Translated in the KJV as make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
a primitive root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat.
châmaç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1Jussive 1Wayyiqtol 1
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›