דְּמוּת demut

Hebrew word for “likeness” · Strong’s H1823 · used 25 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

1) likeness, similitude; adv; 2) in the likeness of, like as

How it is translated

Glosses given for demut in context, with how often each is used:

• likeness 22
• like the likeness 2
• own likeness 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 1 (7), Ezekiel 10 (4), Genesis 5 (2), Genesis 1 (1), 2 Kings 16 (1), 2 Chronicles 4 (1), Psalms 58 (1), Isaiah 13 (1), Isaiah 40 (1), Ezekiel 8 (1)

Forms

• דמות 13
• ודמות 7
• כדמות 2
• כדמותנו 1
• בדמות 1
• בדמותו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with demut more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 10
• אָדָם adam “man” 7
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 5
• רָקִיעַ raqia “expanse” 3
• מַעַל maal “above” 3
• סַפִּיר sappir “sapphire” 2
• אָדָם adam “Adam” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4
• רָאָה raah “to see” 5
• צֶלֶם tselem “image” 2
• נֹגַהּ nogah “brightness” 2
• אוֹפָן ophan “wheel” 2

Key verses

The verses using demut that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the…
• Genesis 5:1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
• Genesis 5:3 — And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
• 2 Kings 16:10 — And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the…
• Psalms 58:4 — Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
• Isaiah 13:4 — The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts…
• Isaiah 40:18 — To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
• Ezekiel 1:10 — As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left…
• Ezekiel 1:26 — And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was…
• Ezekiel 1:28 — As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the…
• Ezekiel 10:1 — Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance…
• Daniel 10:16 — And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.