חָמְס֣וּ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 חָמְס֣וּ

   kha-me-SU

   have done violence
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 חָמְס֣וּ תוֹרָתִי֮

   kha-me-SU to-ra-TI

   have done violence my law
3. clause🔊 כֹּהֲנֶ֜יהָ חָמְס֣וּ תוֹרָתִי֮ וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ קָדָשַׁי֒ בֵּֽין־קֹ֤דֶשׁ לְחֹל֙ לֹ֣א הִבְדִּ֔ילוּ וּבֵין־הַטָּמֵ֥א לְטָה֖וֹר לֹ֣א הוֹדִ֑יעוּ

   ko-ha-NE-ha kha-me-SU to-ra-TI va-ye-khal-LE-lu ka-da-SHAI BEN-KO-desh le-KHOL LO hiv-DI-lu u-VEN-ha-ta-ME le-ta-HOR LO ho-DI-u

   her priests have done violence my law and they profaned my holy things between holy and common not they made a distinction and between the unclean and the clean not they made known
4. sentence🔊 כֹּהֲנֶ֜יהָ חָמְס֣וּ תוֹרָתִי֮ וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ קָדָשַׁי֒ בֵּֽין־קֹ֤דֶשׁ לְחֹל֙ לֹ֣א הִבְדִּ֔ילוּ וּבֵין־הַטָּמֵ֥א לְטָה֖וֹר לֹ֣א הוֹדִ֑יעוּ וּמִשַׁבְּתוֹתַי֙ הֶעְלִ֣ימוּ עֵֽינֵיהֶ֔ם וָאֵחַ֖ל בְּתוֹכָֽם׃

   ko-ha-NE-ha kha-me-SU to-ra-TI va-ye-khal-LE-lu ka-da-SHAI BEN-KO-desh le-KHOL LO hiv-DI-lu u-VEN-ha-ta-ME le-ta-HOR LO ho-DI-u u-mi-shab-be-to-TAI he-e-li-MU e-NE-hem va-E-khal be-to-KHAM

   her priests have done violence my law and they profaned my holy things between holy and common not they made a distinction and between the unclean and the clean not they made known and my Sabbaths they hid their eyes and I was profaned in their midst

Exegesis

The verse opens with a pair of verbs khamsu {חָמְס֣וּ | ḥāmə·sū} ‘do violence’ and vayechallelu {וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ | wa·ye·ḥal·lə·lū} ‘profan’, both taking torati {תוֹרָתִי֮ | tō·rā·ṯî} ‘my law’ and kadoshay {קָדָשַׁי֒ | qā·ḏā·šāy} ‘my holy things’, underscoring breaches of legal and cultic obligations.

Root and etymology

ḥ-m-s🔊 het–mem–samekh

“to be violent”