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Likeness

דִּמְיֹןStrong’s H1825

dimyon (dim-yon)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Dimyon is the Hebrew word usually translated “likeness his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.”
Psalms 17:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Likeness
How it's translated
  • likeness his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    דִּמְיֹן dimyon · likeness

    likeness

    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

    1. Resemblance in form; similitude.
    2. Resemblance; form; external appearance.
    3. One that resembles another; a copy; a counterpart.
    4. 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.