Likeness
מֹ֫שֶׁלStrong’s H4915moshel (mo-shel)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moshel is the Hebrew word usually translated “likeness its”, “like dominion his” and “dominion his”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.”
Meaning
- Likeness, one like, similitude
- Dominion
How it's translated
- likeness its 1
- like dominion his 1
- and dominion his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Daniel 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:10In contextAnd I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
- Job 41:33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
Hebrew dictionary
מֹ֫שֶׁל moshel · likeness
likeness, one like, similitude
מֹ֫שֶׁל moshel · dominion
dominion
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.