εἴκω
eíkō · G1503 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to be like, to resemble, to be similar to
To be like or similar to something else
ExamplesJames 1:6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
James 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- διακρίνωto doubt, to distinguish 1
- οὗτοςthis 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὁμοιόω homoióō · G3666 · to be like, to resemble, to be similar to
- Both terms express resemblance or likeness. ὁμοιόω (homoióō, G3666) is the more frequently attested form, used across a range of comparative and descriptive contexts, while εἴκω (eíkō, G1503) appears rarely in the New Testament corpus, limiting the verification of full register overlap but not contradicting the semantic convergence attested in their shared glosses and domain membership.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be like, to resemble, to be similar to64.4
- In James 1:6, the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind, this verb naming a comparison of resemblance, as also in James 1:23's comparison of a hearer who does not act to a man looking at his own face in a mirror.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : whence 2 perfect ἔοικα with the force of a present (Winers Grammar, 274 (257)); to be…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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