Likeness
תְּמוּנָהStrong’s H8544temunah (te-mu-nah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Temunah is the Hebrew word usually translated “form”, “form of” and “likeness your”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”
Meaning
- Form, image, likeness, representation, semblance
How it's translated
- form 3
- a form of 3
- and form of 1
- and a form 1
- a form 1
- likeness your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 6
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 12:8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
- Deuteronomy 4:12And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:15Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
- Deuteronomy 4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Deuteronomy 4:25When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Hebrew dictionary
תְּמוּנָה temunah · likeness
form, image, likeness, representation, semblance
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.