STRONGS G3667:
ὁμοίωμα,
ὁμοιώματος,
τό (
ὁμοιόω), the
Sept. for
תְּמוּנָה,
דְּמוּת,
צֶלֶם,
תַּבְנִית; properly,
that which has been made after the likeness of something, hence,
a. a figure, image, likeness, representation:
Psalm 105:20 (
Ps. 106:20); 1 Macc. 3:48; of the image or shape of things seen in a vision,
Revelation 9:7 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 604 (562)) (
Ezekiel 1:5,
26,
28, etc.
Plato, in Parmen., p. 132 d., calls finite things
ὁμοιώματα, likenesses as it were, in which
τά παραδειγματα, i. e.
αἱ ἰδέαι or
τά εἴδη, are expressed).
b. likeness i. e. resemblance (inasmuch as that appears in an image or figure), frequent such as amounts almost to
equality or identity:
τίνος,
Romans 6:5;
Romans 8:3 (on which see
σάρξ, 3 at the end (cf. Weiss, Biblical Theol. etc. §§ 69 e. note, 78 c. note));
Philippians 2:7 (see
μορφή);
εἰκόνος, a likeness expressed by an image, i. e. an image, like,
Romans 1:23;
ἐπί τῷ ὁμοιώματι τῆς παραβάσεως Ἀδάμ, in the same manner in which Adam transgressed a command of God (see
ἐπί, B. 2 a.
η.),
Romans 5:14. Cf. the different views of this word set forth by Holsten, Zum Evangel. des Paulus u. Petrus, p. 437ff and (especially for examples) in the Jahrbüch. f. protest. Theol. for 1815, p. 451ff, and by Zeller, Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theol. for 1870, p. 301ff.,
Dickson, St. Paul's Us of the Terms 'Flesh' and 'Spirit' (Glasgow, 1883), p. 322 sqq. (Synonym: cf. εἰκών, at the end; Schmidt, chapter 191.)
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