Word Summary
aphomoioō: to make like
Original Word: ἀφομοιόωTransliteration: aphomoioō
Phonetic Spelling: (af-om-oy-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to make like
Meaning: to make like
Strong's Concordance
make like.
From apo and homoioo; to assimilate closely -- make like.
see GREEK apo
see GREEK homoioo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 871: ἀφομοιόωἀφομοιόω,
ἀφομοιῶ: (perfect passive participle
ἀφωμοιωμένος (on augment see
WH's Appendix, p. 161)); "to cause a model to pass off (
ἀπό) into an image or shape like it — to express itself in it" (cf.
ἀπεικάζειν,
ἀπεικονίζειν,
ἀποπλάσσειν,
ἀπομιμεῖσθαι);
to copy; to produce a facsimile:
τά καλά εἴδη, of painters,
Xenophon, mem. 3, 10, 2; often in
Plato. Passive
to be made like, rendered similar: so
Hebrews 7:3. (Epistle
Jeremiah 4 (5), 62 (63), 70 (71); and in
Plato.)