Be like
דְּמָהStrong’s H1821demah (de-mah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Demah is the Aramaic word usually translated “like”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to be like
How it's translated
- like 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
דְּמָה demah · be like
(P'al) to be like Aramaic of da.mah (דָּמָה "to resemble" H1819)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “like” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIKE, adjective
[Latin, Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]
- Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.
- Similar; resembling; having resemblance.“Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are” James 5:17“What city is like unto this great city?” Revelation 18:18“I saw three unclean spirits like frogs” Revelation 16:13“Among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah” Daniel 1:19
- Probably; likely, that is, having the resemblance or appearance of an event; giving reason to expect or believe.“He is like to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread” Jeremiah 38:9
All definitions and other forms of “like”
LIKE, noun
[elliptically, for like thing, like event, like person.]
- some person or thing resembling another; an equal.
- had like in the phrase, 'he had like to be defeated, ' seems to be a corruption; but perhaps like here is used for resemblance or probability, and has the character of a noun.
LIKE, adverb
- In the same manner.“- Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” Matthew 6:29“LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” Psalms 103:13
- In a manner becoming.“Be strong, and quit yourselves like men” 1 Samuel 4:9
- Likely; probably; as like enough it will.
LIKE, verb transitive
[Latin placeo and delecto, with prefixes.]
- To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve. it expresses less than love and delight.
- to please; to be agreeable to.
- To liken. obsolete
LIKE, verb intransitive
- To be pleased; to choose.
- To like of, to be pleased. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.