---
title: דְּמוּת — likeness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּמוּת (1823), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: likeness. BDB 1906: n.f. likeness, similitude. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1823.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ד](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1491-2.md)‎ / דְּמוּת‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# דְּמוּת

<!-- .meta -->
«דְּמוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **likeness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 25 times · **Key:** 1823 · **BDB:** דְּמוּת

### Glosses

a.likeness (7); the.likeness (7); likeness (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

likeness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1823/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. likeness, similitude [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1823/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. likeness, similitude (mostly late) (according to LagBN 12, 147 ff. mispunct. for דִּמְוַת from דִּמְוָה; according to WeProl. 413, Eng. Tr 389 an Aramaic loan-word, but v. Di Gn 5:1, DrJPh. xi. 216 CheOP. 474)—abs. ד׳ Is 40:18 + 3 times; cstr. ד׳ Gn 5:1 + 16 times; sf. דְּמוּתוֹ Gn 5:3; דְּמוּתֵנוּ 1:26;— likeness, similitude, of external appearance, chiefly in Ezek.: Ez 1:5 (likeness, i.e. something that appeared like) so v 26; 8:2 דְּמוּת כְּמַרְאֵה (אֵשׁ) (cf. Co), 10:1 כְּמַרְאֵה ד׳ כִּסֵּא; cf. also Dn 10:16 כִּדְמוּת בְּנֵי אָדָם i.e. one like the sons of man; similitude, resemblance Ez 1:5, 10, 16, 22, 26; 10:10, 21, 22; דְּמוּת כְּמַרְאֵה אָדָם 1:26; מַרְאֵה ד׳ כְּבוֹד י׳ v 28; also 2 K 16:10 (pattern of altar), 2 Ch 4:3 (images of oxen); of son in likeness of father Gn 5:3 (P); so also of man in likeness of God Gn 1:26 (‖ צֶלֶם), 5:1 (both P); cf. Is 40:18 what ד׳ will ye compare to him (אֵל)? ‖ דִּמָּה q.v. adverbially, in likeness of, like as Is 13:4 cf. Ez 23:15 \& כִּד׳ ψ 58:5.—Ez 1:13 read וּבֵינוֹת v. בֵּין and J P PetersJBL 1892, 40.42. On דְּמוּת אֶחָד Ez 1:16; 10:10 (apparently masc.) cf. Thes \& Sm who trans. the likeness of one had they all four; Co reads אהת.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּמוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1823/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Isaiah 40:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.18/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְאֶל־מִ֖י תְּדַמְּי֣וּן אֵ֑ל וּמַה־דְּמ֖וּת תַּ֥עַרְכוּ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and to whom? will you.liken God and what? likeness will.you.compare to him

*JPS 1917:* To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Psalms 58:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.5/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
חֲמַת־לָ֗מוֹ כִּדְמ֥וּת חֲמַת־נָחָ֑שׁ כְּמוֹ־פֶ֥תֶן חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ יַאְטֵ֥ם אָזְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* venom of them \[is\].like.\[the\] likeness of.\[the\].venom of.a.snake like a.cobra deaf \[which\].it.shuts ear its

*JPS 1917:* Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [דָּמָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5de_5b8_5d4.md)
- next →: [דֳּמִי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1824.md)
- ↑ back to [ד](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1491-2.md)