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# likeness

«likeness» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **resemblance; image** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

resemblance; image

### part of speech

noun (a likeness, likenesses)

### meaning for a pupil

Being like something, or a picture or image of someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/likeness/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a likeness is a resemblance or a portrait. In the first sentence "likeness" means the form or image in which God made man, which is an old sense.

### examples

- In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; (Torah GEN.5.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/likeness/#x1)
- That was my idea, and there stands his likeness." (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/likeness/#x2)
- The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes, which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/likeness/#x3)

### primary record

likeness

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 47 (Torah 11, tales 34, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 5.3 (Torah alone 25.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.117/)
- [the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.129/)
- [the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.130/)
- [Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.855/)
- [And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «likeness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/likeness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.