Lexical Summary homoiōsis: a making like, likeness Original Word: ὁμοίωσιςTransliteration: homoiōsis Phonetic Spelling: (hom-oy'-o-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a making like, likeness Meaning: a making like, likeness Strong's Concordance resemblanceFrom homoioo; assimilation, i.e. Resemblance -- similitude. see GREEK homoioo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3669: ὁμοίωσιςὁμοίωσις, ὁμοιώσεως, ἡ (ὁμοιόω); 1. a making like: opposed to ἀλλοίωσις, Plato, rep. 5, 454 c. 2. likeness (Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus): καθ' ὁμοίωσιν Θεοῦ, after the likeness of God, James 3:9 from Genesis 1:26. (Cf. Trench, § xv.) |