דְּמוּת
de.mut (H1823)
likeness
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# Analysis of דְּמוּת (Demuth) The Hebrew word *demuth* denotes a visual or conceptual likeness—a resemblance between two things. With 25 biblical occurrences, it represents a fundamental term for expressing comparison and similarity in ancient Hebrew. The word functions as a noun describing the quality or state of being like something else, whether physical appearance or abstract correspondence. The significance of *demuth* lies in its application across concrete and abstract domains. It appears in contexts ranging from describing physical representations (such as idols or artistic forms) to expressing theological concepts like humanity bearing the image and likeness of God. This flexibility allows the term to bridge both tangible visual comparisons and more intangible notions of resemblance, making it essential vocabulary for Hebrew thought about imitation, representation, and relationship between entities. The prevalence of *demuth* in the biblical corpus—with 25 documented uses—indicates its importance as a conceptual tool in Hebrew discourse. Rather than serving merely as a casual synonym for "similarity," it carries semantic weight in discussions where the nature and degree of resemblance carries meaning, whether in legal, artistic, theological, or descriptive contexts.
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God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion 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.”
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
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 a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.
As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.
Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
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.
As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.
dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.