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# דִּמְיֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1825

**likeness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

likeness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1825/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּמְיֹן: likeness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1825/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] likeness, דִּמְיֹנוֹ כְּאַרְיֵה ψ 17:12 his likeness is as a lion, i. e. he is like a lion.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: likeness (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 17:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.17.12/#tree)

דִּמְיֹנ֗וֹ כְּ֭אַרְיֵה יִכְס֣וֹף לִטְר֑וֹף וְ֝כִכְפִ֗יר יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* likeness his \[is\].like a.lion \[which\].it.longs to tear.to.pieces and like a.young.lion \[which\].sits in secret.places

*JPS 1917:* He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1825.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1825/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).