temuna · form, likeness

What it means

temuna (תְּמוּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “form, likeness”.

Form, the visible shape of something.

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. The visible shape of something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• form ×9
• figure ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×6
• Job×1
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 20:4

  You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth.

• Numbers 12:8

  Mouth to mouth I speak with him, plainly, and not in riddles; and he gazes on the form of YHWH. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

• Deuteronomy 4:12

  YHWH spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You were hearing the sound of words, but you saw no form; only a voice.

• Deuteronomy 4:15

  So guard your souls carefully, for you did not see any form on the day that YHWH spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,

• Deuteronomy 4:16

  so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any idol, the representation of male or female,

• Deuteronomy 4:23

  Guard yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of YHWH your Elohim, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything, contrary to what YHWH your Elohim commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 4:25

  When you father children and children’s children, and you have grown old in the land, and you act corruptly and make a carved image, the form of anything, and do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH your Elohim, provoking him to anger,

• Deuteronomy 5:8

  You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any form of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the waters under the earth.

• Job 4:16

  It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a figure was before my eyes; silence, and I heard a voice:

• Psalms 17:15

  As for me, in righteousness I will see your face; I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.