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passive); Rom. 9:29; Heb. 2:17, of Christ in being “made like” unto His brethren, i.e., in
partaking of human nature, apart from sin (cf. v. 14).¶
2.
(
S
, 1503v), a perfect tense with a present meaning (from an obsolete
present,
), denotes “to be like, to resemble,” Jas. 1:6, 23.¶ In the Sept., Job 6:3, 25.¶
3.
(
$ 1
, 3945), “to be like” (from
, “by,” and a verbal form
from
, A, No. 1), is used in Matt. 23:27 (perhaps with intensive force), in the
Lord’s comparison of the scribes and Pharisees to whitened sepulchres.¶
4.
(
, 871), “to make like” ( , “from,” and No. 1), is used in
Heb. 7:3, of Melchizedek as “made like” the Son of God, i.e., in the facts related and
withheld in the Genesis record.¶
Note:
For the
KJV
of Rom. 1:23, “made like,” see
LIKENESS
, No. 1.
C. Adverbs.
1.
(
.
, 5613), used as a relative adverb of manner, means “as, like as,” etc. and is
translated “like,” e.g., in Matt. 6:29; Mark 4:31; Luke 12:27; in Acts 3:22 and 7:37 (see
RV
, marg.); in 8:32 (2nd part),
RV
, “as” (
KJV
, “like”); Rev. 2:18,
RV
(the rendering should
have been “as” here); 18:21,
RV
, “as it were” (
KJV
, “like”); 21:11, 2nd part (ditto).
2.
(
O $
, 5618), “just as,” is rendered “like as” in Rom. 6:4.
Notes:
(1) In Heb. 4:15, the phrase
(
, “according to,”
, “a likeness,” i.e., “after the similitude”), is rendered “like as,” in the statement
that Christ has been tempted in all points “like as we are, yet without sin”; this may mean
either “according to the likeness of our temptations,” or “in accordance with His likeness
to us.” (2) In the following the most authentic mss. have
, “as,” for
, “like,” in
the
KJV
; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32; Rev. 1:14. (3) In John 7:46,
KJV
, the
combination of the adverb
$
, thus, with
, “as,” is translated “like,”
RV
“(never
man) so (spake).” (4) For “in like manner” see
MANNER
. (5) In 1 Thess. 2:14,
KJV
,
$
, “the same (things),” is translated “like (things),”
RV
, “the same (things).”
For
(DID NOT) LIKE,
Rom. 1:28
,
KJV
, see
REFUSE
; No. 3
LIKEMINDED
1.
$
(
*
, 2473), lit., “of equal soul” (
, “equal,”
$
, “the
soul”), is rendered “likeminded” in Phil. 2:20.¶ In the Sept., Ps. 55:13.¶
2.
(
3 $
, 3675), (
, “the same,”
, “the mind”), occurs in 1
Pet. 3:8,
RV
, “likeminded” (
KJV
, “of one mind”).
Note:
In Rom. 15:5; Phil. 2:2,
$
, “to think the same thing,” is
translated,
KJV
, “be likeminded” (
RV
, “be of the same, mind”).
LIKENESS, LIKENESS OF (in the)
1.
(
3 &
, 3667) denotes “that which is made like something, a
resemblance,” (a) in the concrete sense, Rev. 9:7, “shapes” (
RV
, marg., “likenesses”); (b)
in the abstract sense, Rom. 1:23,
RV
, “(for) the likeness (of an image)”; the
KJV
translates
it as a verb, “(into an image) made like to”; the association here of the two words