Lexicon demuth: likeness, similitude Original Word: דְּמוּתPart of Speech: noun feminine Transliteration: demuth Phonetic Spelling: (dem-ooth') Short Definition: likeness NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom damahDefinitionlikeness, similitude NASB Translationfigure (1), figures like (1), figures resembling (1), form (4), like (4), likeness (8), pattern (1), resembling (1), something resembling (1), which resembled (1), who resembled (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs דְּמוּת noun feminine likeness, similitude (mostly late) (according to Lag BN 12. 147 ff. mispunct. for דִּמְוַת from דִּמְוָה; according to We Prol. 413. Eng. Tr. 389 an Aramaic Loan-word, but see Di Genesis 5:1, Dr JPh xi. 216 Che OP. 474) — absolute ׳ד Isaiah 40:18 3t.; construct ׳ד Genesis 5:1 16t.; suffix דְּמוּתוֺ Genesis 5:3; דְּמוּתֵנוּ Genesis 1:26; — 1 likeness, similitude, of external appearance, chiefly in Ezek.: Ezekiel 1:5 (likeness, i.e. something that appeared like) so Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 8:2 דְּמוּת כְּמַרְאֵה (אֵשׁׅ (compare Co), Ezekiel 10:1 כִּסֵּא ׳כְּמַרְאֵה ד; compare also Daniel 10:16 כִּדְמוּת בְּנֵי אָדָם i.e. one like the sons of man; similitude, resemblance Ezekiel 1:5,10,16,22,26; Ezekiel 10:10,21,22; דְּמוּת כְּמַרְאֵה אָדָם Ezekiel 1:26; ׳מַרְאֵה ד ׳כְּבוֺד י Ezekiel 1:28; also 2 Kings 16:10 (pattern of altar), 2 Chronicles 4:3 (images of oxen); of son in likeness of father Genesis 5:3 (P); so also of man in likeness of God Genesis 1:26 ("" צֶלֶם) Genesis 5:1 (both P); compare Isaiah 40:18 what ׳ד will ye compare to him (אֵל) ? "" דִּמָּה q. v. 2 adverbially, in likeness of, like as Isaiah 13:4 compare Ezekiel 23:15 & ׳כִּד Psalm 58:5. — Ezekiel 1:13 read וּבֵינוֺת, see בֵּין and J P PetersJBL 1892 40. 42. On דְּמוּת אֶחָד Ezekiel 1:16; Ezekiel 10:10 (apparently masculine) compare Thes & Sm who translate the likeness of one had they all four; Co reads אחת.
Strong's fashion, likeness, as, manner, similitude From damah; resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like -- fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude. see HEBREW damah |
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