ὅμοιος
like
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 10 distinct
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 13 times (29%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 11 times (24%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 8 times (18%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 5 times (11%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (7%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (2%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 time (2%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (2%)
+2 more forms (2 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 45 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3664 appears — 41 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 9 verses
- Matthew 11:16 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
- Matthew 13:31 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
- Matthew 13:33 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
- Matthew 13:44 Ὁμοία adj nom sg fem "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
- Matthew 13:45 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
- Matthew 13:47 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
- Matthew 13:52 ὅμοιός adj nom sg masc He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
- Matthew 20:1 Ὁμοία adj nom sg fem "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
- Matthew 22:39 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
Luke 9 verses
- Luke 6:47 ὅμοιος adj nom sg masc Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
- Luke 6:48 ὅμοιός adj nom sg masc He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
- Luke 6:49 ὅμοιός adj nom sg masc But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
- Luke 7:31 ὅμοιοι adj nom pl masc But the Lord said, "To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
- Luke 7:32 ὅμοιοί adj nom pl masc They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'
- Luke 12:36 ὅμοιοι adj nom pl masc Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
- Luke 13:18 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?
- Luke 13:19 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
- Luke 13:21 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened."
John 2 verses
Acts 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
1 John 1 verse
Jude 1 verse
Revelation 17 verses
- Revelation 1:13 ὅμοιον adj acc sg masc And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
- Revelation 1:15 ὅμοιοι adj nom pl masc His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
- Revelation 2:18 ὅμοιοι adj nom pl masc "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
- Revelation 4:3 ὅμοιος ὅμοιος adj nom sg masc adj nom sg masc that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
- Revelation 4:6 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
- Revelation 4:7 ὅμοιον ὅμοιον ὅμοιον adj nom sg neut adj nom sg neut adj nom sg neut The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
- Revelation 9:7 ὅμοιοι ὅμοιοι adj nom pl masc adj nom pl masc The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.
- Revelation 9:10 ὁμοίας adj acc pl fem They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
- Revelation 9:19 ὅμοιαι adj nom pl fem For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
- Revelation 11:1 ὅμοιος adj nom sg masc A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.
- Revelation 13:2 ὅμοιον adj nom sg neut The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
- Revelation 13:4 ὅμοιος adj nom sg masc They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
- Revelation 13:11 ὅμοια adj acc pl neut I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
- Revelation 14:14 ὅμοιον adj acc sg masc I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
- Revelation 18:18 ὁμοία adj nom sg fem and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'
- Revelation 21:11 ὅμοιος adj nom sg masc having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
- Revelation 21:18 ὅμοιον adj nom sg neut The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek adjective ομοιος centers on the idea of “like.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 11:16. It turns up in 41 verses across 8 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to Revelation (41%), then Matthew and Luke. It shares a root with ομου, ομιλος and ομοθυμαδον. Dig into 41-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3664 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 41
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 41 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #337
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 337 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 41 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 17 verses 41%
- Matthew 9 verses 22%
- Luke 9 verses 22%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 41 distinct verses.
- Gospels 20 verses · 49%
- Johannine 20 verses · 49%
- Revelation 17 verses · 41%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 10 verses · 24%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 5%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Like 36×, Is like 3×, Was like 3×
- American Standard Version: Like 24×, Like unto 9×, Was like 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like 43×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Like 27×, Was like 5×, Is like 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3664 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3664 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3664 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3664 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- like, similar, resembling
Word origin
Derived from ομου (homoû) (G3674) — together.
From the base of G3674 ; similar (in appearance or character): - like + manner.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G3664 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὁμοία homoía | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 11:16 | 11 |
| ὅμοιον hómoion | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 4:7 | 9 |
| ὅμοιος hómoios | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 6:47 | 8 |
| ὅμοιοι hómoioi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 7:31 | 7 |
| ὅμοιός hómoiós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:52 | 3 |
| ὅμοια hómoia | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 13:11 | 2 |
| Ὁμοία Homoía | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 13:44 | 2 |
| ὁμοίας homoías | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 9:10 | 1 |
| ὅμοιαι hómoiai | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 9:19 | 1 |
| ὅμοιοί hómoioí | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 7:32 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3664, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ομιλος hómilos G3658 crowd
- ομοθυμαδον homothymadón G3661 with one accord
- ομολογεω homologéō G3670 to agree with
- ομοτεχνος homótechnos G3673 same trade
- ομοφρων homóphrōn G3675 like-minded
- ομως hómōs G3676 nevertheless
Derived from this word
- ομοιαζω homoiázō G3662 to be like
- ομοιοπαθης homoiopathḗs G3663 having like feelings
- ομοιοτης homoiótēs G3665 likeness
- ομοιοω homoióō G3666 to make like
- ομοιως homoíōs G3668 likewise
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ομοιος appears 61 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 52 verses in 20 books.
- 61
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 52
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:20 ὅμοιος
- Exodus 15:11 ὅμοιος
- Leviticus 11:14 ὅμοιος
- Deuteronomy 14:13 ὅμοιος
- 1 Samuel 10:24 ὅμοιος
- 2 Samuel 9:8 ὅμοιος
- 1 Kings 3:12 ὅμοιος
- 2 Kings 3:7 ὅμοιος
- 1 Chronicles 17:20 ὅμοιος
- 2 Chronicles 1:12 ὅμοιος
- Ezra 23:26 ὅμοιος
- Job 35:8 ὅμοιος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3664) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 52. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:20 ὅμοιος The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Exodus 15:11 ὅμοιος Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Leviticus 11:14 ὅμοιος and the red kite, any kind of black kite,
- Leviticus 11:15 ὅμοιος any kind of raven,
- Leviticus 11:16 ὅμοιος the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,
- Leviticus 11:19 ὅμοιος the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Leviticus 11:22 ὅμοιος Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
- Deuteronomy 14:13 ὅμοιος and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
- Deuteronomy 14:14 ὅμοιος and every raven after its kind,
- Deuteronomy 14:17 ὅμοιος and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
- Deuteronomy 14:18 ὅμοιος and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 ὅμοιος Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.
- 1 Samuel 10:24 ὅμοιος Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
- 2 Samuel 9:8 ὅμοιος He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
- 1 Kings 3:12 ὅμοιος behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
- 1 Kings 3:13 ὅμοιος I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.
- 2 Kings 3:7 ὅμοιος He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
- 2 Kings 18:5 ὅμοιος He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him.
- 2 Kings 23:25 ὅμοιος Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
- 1 Chronicles 17:20 ὅμοιος Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- 2 Chronicles 1:12 ὅμοιος wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like.
- 2 Chronicles 6:14 ὅμοιος and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
- 2 Chronicles 35:18 ὅμοιος There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 35:19 ὅμοιος In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.
- Ezra 23:26 ὅμοιος
- Job 35:8 ὅμοιος Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.
- Job 37:23 ὅμοιος We can't reach the Almighty, He is exalted in power; In justice and great righteousness he will not oppress.
- Job 41:25 ὅμοιος When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
- Psalms 34:10 ὅμοιος The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, But those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
- Psalms 49:21 ὅμοιος
- Psalms 70:19 ὅμοιος
- Psalms 85:8 ὅμοιος I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, For he will speak peace to his people, his saints; But let them not turn again to folly.
- Psalms 88:9 ὅμοιος My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
- Psalms 113:16 ὅμοιος
- Psalms 134:18 ὅμοιος
- Proverbs 19:12 ὅμοιος The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Proverbs 26:4 ὅμοιος Don't answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.
- Proverbs 26:8 ὅμοιος As one who binds a stone in a sling, So is he who gives honor to a fool.
- Proverbs 27:19 ὅμοιος As water reflects a face, So a man's heart reflects the man.
- Song of Solomon 2:9 ὅμοιος My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
- Song of Solomon 7:2 ὅμοιος Your body is like a round goblet, No mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.
- Isaiah 13:4 ὅμοιος The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.
- Isaiah 14:14 ὅμοιος I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
- Isaiah 23:2 ὅμοιος Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
- Isaiah 62:7 ὅμοιος and give him no rest, until he establish, and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
- Lamentations 1:21 ὅμοιος They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.
- Ezekiel 5:9 ὅμοιος I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 16:32 ὅμοιος A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 31:8 ὅμοιος The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
- Daniel 1:19 ὅμοιος The king talked with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3664) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
