דְּמוּת
dᵉmûwth · H1823 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences
Meanings
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likeness, resemblance, representation, model
State in which objects are, or are perceived as having something in common with other objects
ExamplesGenesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
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like
A marker that introduces a description of one object based on its resemblance to another object
ExamplesPsalm 58:4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
Isaiah 13:4 A sound of a roar on the mountains, Like that of many people! A sound of an uproar of kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The LORD of armies is mustering the army for battle.
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
19 occurrences in 14 groups
- כִּסֵּאthrone, seat 3
- Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (16) 16
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶחָדone 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָגַעto touch 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
What it is said to bePredicate
13 occurrences in 11 groups
- מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 3
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חֵמָהwrath, fury 1
- קוֹלvoice, sound 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- כlike/as 4
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 2
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
- צֶלֶם tselem · H6754 · image, likeness, resemblance
- Both denote likeness or representation—דְּמוּת (dᵉmûwth, H1823) emphasizing abstract resemblance or similitude, צֶלֶם (tselem, H6754) a concrete image or representation—overlapping in the semantic territory of comparison and likeness.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὁμοίωμα homoíōma · G3667 · similarity, likeness, being similar
- Greek ὁμοίωμα (homoiōma) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew דְּמוּת (dᵉmûṯ), both denoting visual or conceptual resemblance/likeness; the terms overlap precisely in semantic range (form, similitude, pattern) with ὁμοίωμα carrying the concrete Greek morphology of the -μα result-noun from ὁμοιόω ('to make like'), directly paralleling דְּמוּת's function in Genesis 1:26 ('image and likeness') and Ezekiel's visionary descriptions.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Compare002004002003
- דְּמוּת denotes a likeness or resemblance, a form comparable to something else, as when humanity is made in the likeness of God in Genesis.
- Description002001
- דְּמוּת functions broadly as a descriptive term for the shape, form, or manner of something, used throughout Ezekiel's visions to describe the appearance of what the prophet saw.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1823. demuth דְּמוּת noun feminine likeness, similitude (mostly late) (according to…
דְּמוּת noun feminine likeness, similitude (mostly late) (according to LagBN 12. 147 ff. mispunct. for דִּמְוַת from דִּמְוָה; according to WeProl. 413. Eng. Tr. 389 an Aramaic Loan-word, but see Di Gen 5:1, DrJPh xi. 216 CheOP. 474) — absolute ׳ד Isa 40:18 Isa 40:3t.; construct ׳ד Gen 5:1 Gen 5:16t.; suffix דְּמוּתוֺ Gen 5:3; דְּמוּתֵנוּ Gen 1:26; —
1 likeness, similitude, of external appearance, chiefly in Ezek.: Eze 1:5 (likeness, i.e. something that appeared like) so Eze 1:26; Eze 8:2 (אֵשׁׅ כְּמַרְאֵה דְּמוּת (compare Co), Eze 10:1 ד ׳כְּמַרְאֵה כִּסֵּא; compare also Dan 10:16 אָדָם בְּנֵי כִּדְמוּת i.e. one like the sons of man; similitude, resemblance Eze 1:5, Eze 1:10, Eze 1:16, Eze 1:22, Eze 1:26; Eze 10:10, Eze 10:21, Eze 10:22; אָדָם כְּמַרְאֵה דְּמוּת Eze 1:26; י ׳כְּבוֺד ד ׳מַרְאֵה Eze 1:28; also 2Ki 16:10 (pattern of altar), 2Ch 4:3 (images of oxen); of son in likeness of father Gen 5:3 (P); so also of man in likeness of God Gen 1:26 (|| צֶלֶם) Gen 5:1 (both P); compare Isa 40:18 what ׳ד will ye compare to him (אֵל) ? || דִּמָּה q. v.
2 adverbially, in likeness of, like as Isa 13:4 compare Eze 23:15 & ׳כִּד Psa 58:5. — Eze 1:13 read וּבֵינוֺת, see בֵּין and J P PetersJBL 1892 40. 42. On אֶחָד דְּמוּת Eze 1:16; Eze 10:10 (apparently masculine) compare Thes & Sm who translate the likeness of one had they all four; Co reads אחת.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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