‘Hamas’ is in the Bible - and the terrorist group lives up to the name

Washington Times ^ | October 18, 2023 | By Jeremiah J. Johnston

[Red Badger]

Many are asking if Hamas is in the Bible. Is this an omen or sign? Some even suggest futuristic consequences or prophetic signs and wonders related to Hamas and the modern Israel nation. Well, yes, Hamas is in the Bible, but perhaps not in the way you may expect. Also, let’s hope history repeats itself and Hamas is ended.

“Hamas,” the Arabic terrorist group acronym moniker of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), is also a chilling homophone in the Bible: violence.

Genesis 6:11 says, “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence [Hamas: lit. חָמָס (ḥāmās)].”

The Hebrew word ḥāmās is a noun meaning an act of aggression, but especially involving physical contact. Hamas was founded in 1987; however, the biblical word “ḥāmās” or “violence” reaches back to the earliest chapters of Genesis and is one of the significant reasons for the flood.

And Hamas terrorism is certainly delivering on their name. Let us pray God sends the same judgment as he did in Genesis 6 to rid the world of this evil. No quarter should be given to an extremist movement celebrating child execution, preteen wives, destruction of antiquities, crimes against humanity, genocide, terror-tweeting, torture, social media radicalization, amputations, and slavery all in the “name of Allah.”

In the days of Noah, God saw the earth was filled with violence (ḥāmās), so he sent a flood, “for the earth is filled with violence (ḥāmās) through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:13).

Hamas, used as both a noun and verb, appear 67 times in the Bible. More specifically, the word ḥāmās in the Old Testament is used almost always in connection with sinful violence. It does not refer to the violence of natural catastrophes.

[Red Badger]

Ping!....................

[LeoWindhorse]

#F Pallestine

Hamas go to Hell

Deploy thermobaric munitions

[Hebrews 11:6]

Certainly a reach, but God is fond of linking OT and NT, and there may be something to this. I am skeptical, but I don’t know enough to be dismissive...............

[2Dreamin]

Here is the biblical verse that talks about this.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬ ‭KJV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/1/ecc.1.9.KJV

[Red Badger]

Ancient Israelites loved puns and rhyming puns especially...........

[vpintheak]

Amen to that. Tell it to people all the time.

[Just mythoughts]

Oh Jeremiah is clueless as to why The Heavenly Father sent the flood and saved the only suitable flesh for Christ to take this flesh journey.. Those ‘Sons of God’ were the fallen angels, they were not born of women. The fallen angels intent was to destroy the blood line to Christ. Book of Jude.. the bloody Hamas today are all flesh, born of woman.

[ducttape45]

Actually, the Washington Times got the spelling wrong, but the meaning is still the same.

From the Strong's Concordance:

חָמָס

châmâs

khaw-mawce'

From H2554; violence; by implication wrong; by metonymy unjust gain: - cruel (-ty), damage, false, injustice, X oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.

It helps to have access to sound biblical reference material. I don't trust anything coming from the MSM or printed paper.

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[metmom]

Jonathan Cahn says the same thing.

Jonathan Cahn Prophetic: The Israel-Hamas End-Time Mystery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYJO8oZuEa8

[Ezekiel]

It's simply the word meaning as it ended up in Hebrew. Nothing sketchy.

The modern word is an Arabic acronym which is then transliterated into Hebrew. Not mentioned is that Hamas the terrorist organization is spelled with an alef [חמאס], as seen here. That's not really an issue though; it doesn't need one. I'd suspect it's there to differentiate it from a regular Hebrew word.

Compare:

Root: ח - מ - ס

And:

Hamas in the Torah

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.

[Ezekiel]

I should have qualified that by saying that the word info is legit, but at whatever point the ‘experts’ claim that’s it’s evidence for some theory or supposed prophecy fulfillment... the end-times marketplace is going to produce what’ll sell.

Not like this word meaning is new information. “Hamas” in the Torah had popped up at least a couple of decades ago in the general terrorist-related information stream.

[Hebrews 11:6]

That’s quite helpful. Thanks again, Ezekiel..

[jmacusa]

BS. Islam did not appear in the world until the 7th. century. The two books of the Bible appeared in the 1st century BC and in the mid 1st Ad. There is NO mention what so ever in the Bible of Islam, Hamas or anything else concerning Islam since it didn't exist.

[PrairieLady2]

Thanks for the Kahn vid! I watched it and sent the link to others.