demut · likeness

What it means

demut (דְּמוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “likeness”.

Resemblance; form, model; "like". It goes with "image": the human being was made to be like God in some way and to represent him, without being equal to him.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What has the shape or look of something else without being that thing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• likeness ×23
• like ×1
• were figures ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×16
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 1:26

  And Elohim said, “Let us make the human being in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

• Genesis 5:1

  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created the human being, in the likeness of Elohim he made him.

• Genesis 5:3

  And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria at Damascus, and he saw the altar that was in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, for all its workmanship.

• 2 Chronicles 4:3

  Under it were figures of oxen all around, encircling it, ten to a cubit, surrounding the Sea all around; the oxen were in two rows, cast in its casting.

• Psalms 58:4

  They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

• Isaiah 13:4

  The sound of a multitude on the mountains, the likeness of a great people! The sound of the uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathered together! YHWH Tsevaot is mustering the army for battle.

• Isaiah 40:18

  And to whom will you liken El, and what likeness will you set beside him?

• Ezekiel 1:5

  And in its midst was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a human being.

• Ezekiel 1:10

  And the likeness of their faces: the face of a human being, and the face of a lion on the right for the four of them, and the face of an ox on the left for the four of them, and the face of an eagle for the four of them.

• Ezekiel 1:13

  And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; it moved back and forth among the living creatures, and the fire had brightness, and from the fire went out lightning.

• Ezekiel 1:16

  The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the gleam of chrysolite, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearance and their workmanship were as if a wheel were within a wheel.

• Ezekiel 1:22

  And over the heads of the living creature there was the likeness of a vault, like the gleam of fearsome frost, spread out over their heads above.

• Ezekiel 1:26

  And above the vault that was over their heads, like the appearance of a sapphire stone, was the likeness of a throne; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness like the appearance of a human being on it, above.

• Ezekiel 1:28

  Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. That was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. And I saw it, and I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

• Ezekiel 8:2

  And I looked, and look, a likeness like the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, like the appearance of radiance, like the gleam of shining metal.

• Ezekiel 10:1

  And I looked, and look, on the vault that was over the head of the cherubim, like a sapphire stone, like the appearance of the likeness of a throne, something appeared above them.

• Ezekiel 10:10

  And as for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.

• Ezekiel 10:21

  Each had four faces apiece, and each four wings, and the likeness of human hands under their wings.

• Ezekiel 10:22

  And the likeness of their faces: they were the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearance and they themselves; each went in the direction of its face.

• Ezekiel 23:15

  girded with belts on their loins, with dangling turbans on their heads, with the appearance of officers, all of them, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

• Daniel 10:16

  And look, one with the likeness of human beings was touching my lips, and I opened my mouth and spoke and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision my pangs have turned upon me, and I have not retained strength.

And 3 more times.