Likeness
דְּמוּתStrong’s H1823demut (de-mut)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Demut is the Hebrew word usually translated “likeness of”, “likeness” and “like likeness of”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.”
Meaning
- Likeness, similitude
- In the likeness of, like as
How it's translated
- likeness of 7
- and likeness of 5
- a likeness 3
- like likeness of 2
- a likeness of 2
- and a likeness 2
- according to likeness our 1
- in likeness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 13
- Genesis 3
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- 2 Kings 16:10And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
- Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Hebrew dictionary
דְּמוּת demut · likeness
1) likeness, similitude adv 2) in the likeness of, like as
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “likeness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LI'KENESS, noun
- Resemblance in form; similitude.
- Resemblance; form; external appearance.
- One that resembles another; a copy; a counterpart.
- An image, picture or statue, resembling a person or thing. Exodus 20:4
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.