Demut דְּמוּת

Demut (Hebrew דְּמוּת, Strong's H1823) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “likeness”. It occurs 25 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Image of God

Verses

Every verse with Demut, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 1:26
  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
• Genesis 5:1
  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
• Genesis 5:3
  And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 16:10
  And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 4:3
  And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

Psalms

• Psalm 58:4
  Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

Isaiah

• Isaiah 13:4
  The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
• Isaiah 40:18
  To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 1:5
  Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,
• Ezekiel 1:10
  As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.
• Ezekiel 1:13
  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
• Ezekiel 1:16
  The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
• Ezekiel 1:22
  And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
• Ezekiel 1:26
  And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.
• Ezekiel 1:28
  As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
• Ezekiel 8:2
  Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.
• Ezekiel 10:1
  Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
• Ezekiel 10:10
  And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.
• Ezekiel 10:21
  Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.
• Ezekiel 10:22
  And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.
• Ezekiel 23:15
  Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

Daniel

• Daniel 10:16
  And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).