homoiōma · likeness

What it means

homoiōma (ὁμοίωμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “likeness”.

Something made like something else, a form or resemblance.

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 resembles something; a similar form.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• likeness ×5
• appearance ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Romans×4
• Philippians×1
• Revelation×1

• Romans 1:23

  and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of a corruptible human being and of birds and of four-footed animals and of creeping things.

• Romans 5:14

  Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of the one who was to come.

• Romans 6:5

  For if we have become united with the likeness of his death, certainly we will be united also with the likeness of his resurrection,

• Romans 8:3

  For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did: sending his own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

• Philippians 2:7

  but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming to be in the likeness of human beings; and being found in appearance as a human being,

• Revelation 9:7

  And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were what looked like crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces;