noun · neuter
homoiōmem
Strong’sG3667
a likeness, form, similitude
stem homoiōm-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὁμοίωμα, -τος, τό
(< ὁμοιόω), [in LXX for דְּמוּת, תַּבְנִית, תְּמוּנָה, etc.;]
SYN.: εἰκών (q.v.), ὁμοίωσις.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3667 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhom-oy'-o-mah
a form; abstractly, resemblance
Fromfrom G3666;
King Jamesmade like to, likeness, shape, similitude.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
likeness, image, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ὁμοιώματος in accordance with the practice in similar cases, by analogy, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | homoiōmem | homoiōmeim1×ὁμοιώματα |
| of, belonging to genitive | homoiōmeu | homoiōmeiu |
| to, for dative | homoiōme5×ὁμοιώματι | homoiōmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
homoiōme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
homoiōme“likeness”to, fordative singular5×
Romans 1:23“resembling”… tan doxan tou afthartou theou en homoiōme eikonau fthartou anthrōpou kai peteineiu kai …and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and …
Romans 5:14“likeness”… epi toin mē hamartarantoin epi te homoiōme tau parabasiau Adam, hos atō tupos …… reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to …
Romans 6:5“likeness”Ei gar sumfutois genanē te homoiōme tou thanatou autou, alla kai tau …For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united …
Romans 8:3… theos ton heautou huion pemparantos en homoiōme sarkau hamartau kai peri hamartau katakrinata …… sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering …
Philippians 2:7… heauton kenata morfan doulou labarantos, en homoiōme anthrōpoiu generantos; kai schēme heuriskirantos hōs …… a servant, being made in human likeness.
homoiōmeim“appearance”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Revelation 9:7“appearance”Kai teim homoiōmeim taiu akridaiu homoieim hippoi hetoimazorēntoi eis …And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of …