ὁμοίωμα
likeness
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3667 appears in the Book of Philippians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Philippians
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.
ομοιωμα (homoíōma) is a Greek noun most often rendered “likeness.” It clusters heavily in Romans, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. It turns up in 6 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in Romans 1:23. From the same root come ομοιοω and ομοιωσις. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3667 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 4 verses 67%
- Philippians 1 verse 17%
- Revelation 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 83%
- Johannine 1 verse · 17%
- Revelation 1 verse · 17%
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: Likeness 3×
- American Standard Version: Likeness 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Human likeness 1×, Like this 1×, Likeness 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Likeness 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3667 across 6 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 G3667 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3667 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3667 across 6 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.
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.
- that which has been made after the likeness of something
Word origin
Derived from ομοιοω (homoióō) (G3666) — to make like.
From G3666 ; a form ; abstractly resemblance : - made like to likeness shape similitude.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3667 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὁμοιώματι homoiṓmati | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 1:23 | 5 |
| ὁμοιώματα homoiṓmata | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 9:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3667, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ομοιωμα appears 38 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 12 books.
- 38
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 32
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 20:4 ὁμοίωμα
- Deuteronomy 4:12 ὁμοίωμα
- Joshua 22:28 ὁμοίωμα
- Judges 8:18 ὁμοίωμα
- 1 Samuel 6:5 ὁμοίωμα
- 2 Kings 16:10 ὁμοίωμα
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 ὁμοίωμα
- Psalms 105:20 ὁμοίωμα
- Song of Solomon 1:11 ὁμοίωμα
- Isaiah 40:18 ὁμοίωμα
- Ezekiel 1:5 ὁμοίωμα
- Daniel 3:92 ὁμοίωμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3667) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 20:4 ὁμοίωμα "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Deuteronomy 4:12 ὁμοίωμα Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:15 ὁμοίωμα Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 4:16 ὁμοίωμα Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:17 ὁμοίωμα the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
- Deuteronomy 4:18 ὁμοίωμα the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
- Deuteronomy 4:23 ὁμοίωμα Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 4:25 ὁμοίωμα When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
- Deuteronomy 5:8 ὁμοίωμα "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Joshua 22:28 ὁμοίωμα Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.
- Judges 8:18 ὁμοίωμα Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
- 1 Samuel 6:5 ὁμοίωμα Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 2 Kings 16:10 ὁμοίωμα King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 ὁμοίωμα Under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
- Psalms 105:20 ὁμοίωμα The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
- Psalms 143:12 ὁμοίωμα In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
- Song of Solomon 1:11 ὁμοίωμα We will make you earrings of gold, With studs of silver. Beloved
- Isaiah 40:18 ὁμοίωμα To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
- Isaiah 40:19 ὁμοίωμα The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
- Ezekiel 1:5 ὁμοίωμα Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
- Ezekiel 1:16 ὁμοίωμα The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 1:22 ὁμοίωμα Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above.
- Ezekiel 1:26 ὁμοίωμα Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
- Ezekiel 1:28 ὁμοίωμα 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 likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
- Ezekiel 8:2 ὁμοίωμα Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
- Ezekiel 8:3 ὁμοίωμα He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
- Ezekiel 10:1 ὁμοίωμα Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
- Ezekiel 10:8 ὁμοίωμα There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.
- Ezekiel 10:10 ὁμοίωμα As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 10:21 ὁμοίωμα Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
- Ezekiel 23:15 ὁμοίωμα girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
- Daniel 3:92 ὁμοίωμα
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3667) 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.
