homoiōsias

Strong’sG3669

making like, likeness

stem homoiōsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.

ὁμοίωσις, -εως, ἡ

(ὁμοιόω), [in LXX chiefly for דְּמוּת, Ps 57 (58):4, al.;]

1. a making like, becoming like (Plat.).

2. likeness: Ja 3:9(LXX).†

SYN.: v.s. ὁμοίωμα, and cf. Tr., Syn., § xv.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3669 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhom-oy'-o-sis

assimilation, i.e. resemblance

Fromfrom G3666;

King Jamessimilitude.

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

ὁμοί-ωσις, εως, ἡ,
a being made like, θεῷ Refs 5th c.BC+
2 likeness, resemblance, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ἀλλοίωσις, NT+5th c.BC+
3 establishment of a resemblance, τῆς ὁ. ἕνεκεν αὐτῆς λαμβάνεσθαι τὰς μεταφοράς Refs 5th c.BC+
3.b Grammars, comparison, -ώσεως ἐπιρρήματα Refs 2nd c.BC+
4 simile, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
5 Refs 4th c.BC+ name for nine, Refs

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.

likeness1×

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 nominative	homoiōsias	homoiōsiais
object accusative	homoiōsian1×ὁμοίωσιν	homoiōsiain
direct address vocative	homoiōsiar	homoiōsiair
of, belonging to genitive	homoiōsiau	homoiōsiaiu
to, for dative	homoiōsia	homoiōsiai

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

homoiōsistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

homoiōsia 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

homoiōsian“likeness”objectaccusative singular1×

James 3:9… auta kataronō toin anthrōpoin toin kata homoiōsian theou genarēntoin;… who have been made in God’s likeness.