Lemma
ὁμοίωμα
homoiōma
Likeness or resemblance. That which is made like something, concrete or abstract.
Forms
- ὁμοίωμα
- ὁμοιώματι
- ὁμοιώματα
Related
Passages
- Romans 1:23 the likeness of an image of corruptible man
- Romans 6:5 united with him in the likeness of his death
- Romans 8:3 sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
- Philippians 2:7 being made in the likeness of men.
- Revelation 9:7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war.
ὁμοίωμα is that which is made like something: a likeness or resemblance. Strong’s glosses it as a form, or abstractly a resemblance. It can name a concrete copy, as an idol-figure, or the abstract fact of being like. In the WOTA Bible it is printed “likeness,” and once “shapes.”
The New Testament has it six times. Romans 1:23 sets ὁμοίωμα beside εἰκών: the likeness of an image of corruptible man. Romans 5:14 has the Greek for the likeness of Adam’s disobedience; the English there follows the base wording without the noun “likeness.” Romans 6:5 is union in the likeness of his death. Romans 8:3 is the Son sent in the likeness of sinful flesh. Philippians 2:7 is made in the likeness of men. Revelation 9:7 prints “shapes” for the plural.
In the Greek Old Testament ὁμοίωμα often stands for Hebrew תְּמוּנָה, especially in the ban on idols: Exodus 20:4 and Deuteronomy 5:8. That is the nearest regular Greek match for temunah in the law texts. Numbers 12:8 is the exception that uses δόξα, glory, instead.
Strong’s
Strong’s dictionaries compiled by Open Scriptures, used under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
ὁμοίωμα G3667
homoíōma
a form; abstractly, resemblance
Thayer’s
Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.
ὁμοίωμα G3667
homoíōma
ὁμοίωμα, ὁμοιώματος, τό (ὁμοιόω), the Sept. for תְּמוּנָה, דְּמוּת, צֶלֶם, תַּבְנִית; properly, that which has been made after the likeness of something, hence,
a. a figure, image, likeness, representation: Psa 105:20; 1Ma 3:48; of the image or shape of things seen in a vision, Rev 9:7 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 604 (562)) (Eze 1:5; Eze 1:26; Eze 1:28, etc. Plato, in Parmen., p. 132 d., calls finite things ὁμοιώματα, likenesses as it were, in which τά παραδειγματα, i. e. αἱ ἰδέαι or τά εἴδη, are expressed).
b. likeness i. e. resemblance (inasmuch as that appears in an image or figure), frequent such as amounts almost to equality or identity: τίνος, Rom 6:5; Rom 8:3 (on which see σάρξ, 3 at the end (cf. Weiss, Biblical Theol. etc. §§ 69 e. note, 78 c. note)); Php 2:7 (see μορφή); εἰκόνος, a likeness expressed by an image, i. e. an image, like, Rom 1:23; ἐπί τῷ ὁμοιώματι τῆς παραβάσεως Ἀδάμ, in the same manner in which Adam transgressed a command of God (see ἐπί, B. 2 a. εε.), Rom 5:14. Cf. the different views of this word set forth by Holsten, Zum Evangel. des Paulus u. Petrus, p. 437ff and (especially for examples) in the Jahrbüch. f. protest. Theol. for 1815, p. 451ff, and by Zeller, Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theol. for 1870, p. 301ff. (Synonym: cf. εἰκών, at the end; Schmidt, chapter 191.)