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Lexicon :: Strong's G3666 - homoioō

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ὁμοιόω
Transliteration
homoioō (Key)
Pronunciation
hom-oy-o'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:188,684

Strong’s Definitions

ὁμοιόω homoióō, hom-oy-o'-o; from G3664; to assimilate, i.e. compare; passively, to become similar:—be (make) like, (in the) liken(-ess), resemble.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G3666 in the following manner: liken (9x), make like (2x), be like (2x), in the likeness of (1x), resemble (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G3666 in the following manner: liken (9x), make like (2x), be like (2x), in the likeness of (1x), resemble (1x).

  1. to be made like

  2. to liken, compare

    1. illustrate by comparisons

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὁμοιόω homoióō, hom-oy-o'-o; from G3664; to assimilate, i.e. compare; passively, to become similar:—be (make) like, (in the) liken(-ess), resemble.
STRONGS G3666:
ὁμοιόω, ὁμοίῳ: future ὁμοιώσω; passive, 1 aorist ὡμοιώθην, and without augment ὁμοιωθην (once Romans 9:29 L marginal reading T editions 2, 7 (but see WHs Appendix, p. 161); cf. Buttmann, 34 (30); Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 124; (cf.) Lob. ad Phryn., p. 153); 1 future ὁμοιωθήσομαι; (ὅμοιος); from (Homer and) Herodotus down; the Sept. especially for דָּמָה;
a. to make like: τινα τίνι; passive to be or to become like to one: Matthew 6:8; Acts 14:11; Hebrews 2:17; ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, was made like, took the likeness of, (aorist of the time when the Messiah appeared), Matthew 13:24; Matthew 18:23; Matthew 22:2; ὁμοιωθήσεται (future of the time of the last judgment), Matthew 25:1; ὡς τί, to be made like and thus to become as a thing (i. e., a blending of two thoughts; cf. Fritzsche on Mark 4:31; Buttmann, § 133, 10; Winer's Grammar, § 65, 1 a.), Romans 9:29 (כְּ נִדְמָה, Ezekiel 32:2).
b. to liken, compare: τινα τίνι, or τί τίνι, Matthew 7:24 (R G (see below)); Matthew 11:16; Mark 4:30 R L text Tr marginal reading; Luke 7:31; Luke 13:18 Luke 13:20; passive Matt. 7:(Matthew 7:24 L T WH Tr text), Matthew 7:26; to illustrate by comparison, πῶς ὁμοιώσωμεν τήν βασσιλειαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, Mark 4:30 T WH Tr text L marginal reading (Compare: ἀφομοιόω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ezekiel
32:2
Matthew
6:8; 7; 7:24; 7:24; 7:26; 11:16; 13:24; 18:23; 22:2; 25:1
Mark
4:30; 4:30; 4:31
Luke
7:31; 13:18; 13:20
Acts
14:11
Romans
9:29; 9:29
Hebrews
2:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3666 matches the Greek ὁμοιόω (homoioō),
which occurs 30 times in 29 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23 - Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - Of David.
To you, O LORD, I call;
my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you be silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - You have multiplied, O LORD my God,
your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
yet they are more than can be told.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:12 - Man in his pomp will not remain;
he is like the beasts that perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:20 - Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:1 - A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:6 - For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?
Who among the heavenly beings[fn] is like the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I am like a desert owl of the wilderness,
like an owl[fn] of the waste places;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:7 - Answer me quickly, O LORD!
My spirit fails!
Hide not your face from me,
lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4 - Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:9 - I compare you, my love,
to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:17 - Until the day breathes
and the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle
or a young stag on cleft mountains.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:7 - Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - She
Make haste, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - If the LORD of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we should have been like Sodom,
and become like Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:18 - To whom then will you liken God,
or what likeness compare with him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:25 - To whom then will you compare me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:5 - “To whom will you liken me and make me equal,
and compare me, that we may be alike?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13 - What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:2 - “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:
“Whom are you like in your greatness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it,
nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
neither were the plane trees
like its branches;
no tree in the garden of God
was its equal in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - “Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:
“You consider yourself a lion of the nations,
but you are like a dragon in the seas;
you burst forth in your rivers,
trouble the waters with your feet,
and foul their rivers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:5 - You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy your mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:10 - I spoke to the prophets;
it was I who multiplied visions,
and through the prophets gave parables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:11 - Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!
For all the traders[fn] are no more;
all who weigh out silver are cut off.
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