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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Read in context →And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Read in context →104 occurrences in 86 verses.
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hómoios · hom'-oy-os
similar (in appearance or character)
Strong's KJV usage: :--like, + manner.
Strong's first: Matthew 11:16Strong's last: Revelation 16:13
Open full G3664 profile →dâmâh · daw-maw'
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
Strong's KJV usage: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
Strong's first: Psalms 102:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 32:2
Open full H1819 profile →hōs · hoce
which how, i.e. in that manner (very variously used, as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: :--about, after (that), (according) as (it had been, it were), as soon (as), even as (like), for, how (greatly), like (as, unto), since, so (that), that, to wit, unto, when(-soever), while, X with all speed.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:29Strong's last: Revelation 21:11
Open full G5613 profile →hōseí · ho-si'
as if
Strong's KJV usage: :--about, as (it had been, it were), like (as).
Strong's first: Matthew 3:16Strong's last: Revelation 1:14
Open full G5616 profile →kᵉmôw · kem-o'
as, thus, so
Strong's KJV usage: according to, (such) as (it were, well as), in comparison of, like (as, to, unto), thus, when, worth.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 35:18Strong's last: Lamentations 1:21
Open full H3644 profile →mâshal · maw-shal'
to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
Strong's KJV usage: be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.
Strong's first: Job 30:19Strong's last: Isaiah 14:10
Open full H4911 profile →homoióō · hom-oy-o'-o
to assimilate, i.e. compare; passively, to become similar
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (make) like, (in the) liken(-ess), resemble.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:8Strong's last: Hebrews 2:17
Open full G3666 profile →parómoios · par-om'-oy-os
alike nearly, i.e. similar
Strong's KJV usage: :--like.
Strong's first: Mark 7:8Strong's last: Mark 7:13
Open full G3946 profile →dᵉmâh · dem-aw'
to resemble
Strong's KJV usage: be like.
Strong's first: Daniel 3:25Strong's last: Daniel 7:5
Open full H1821 profile →châphêts · khaw-fates'
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
Strong's KJV usage: × any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:7Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:8
Open full H2654 profile →shâvâh · shaw-vaw'
properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-) like, make plain, profit, reckon.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:34Strong's last: Proverbs 26:4
Open full H7737 profile →aphomoióō · af-om-oy-o'-o
to assimilate closely
Strong's KJV usage: :--make like.
Strong's first: Hebrews 7:3Strong's last: Hebrews 7:3
Open full G871 profile →dokimázō · dok-im-ad'-zo
to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve
Strong's KJV usage: :--allow, discern, examine, X like, (ap-)prove, try.
Strong's first: Romans 1:28Strong's last: Romans 1:28
Open full G1381 profile →eíkō · i'-ko
to resemble
Strong's KJV usage: :--be like.
Strong's first: James 1:6Strong's last: James 1:6
Open full G1503 profile →ísos · ee'-sos
similar (in amount and kind)
Strong's KJV usage: :--+ agree, as much, equal, like.
Strong's first: Acts 11:17Strong's last: Acts 11:17
Open full G2470 profile →kagṓ · kag-o'
so also the dative case κἀμοί kam-oy', and accusative case κἀμέ kam-eh' and (or also, even, etc.) I, (to) me
Strong's KJV usage: :--(and, even, even so, so) I (also, in like wise), both me, me also.
Strong's first: Matthew 21:24Strong's last: Matthew 21:24
Open full G2504 profile →kaí · kahee
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
Strong's KJV usage: :--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Strong's first: Mark 13:29Strong's last: Mark 13:29
Open full G2532 profile →paromoiázō · par-om-oy-ad'-zo
to resemble
Strong's KJV usage: :--be like unto.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:27Strong's last: Matthew 23:27
Open full G3945 profile →tautá · tow-tah'
in the same way
Strong's KJV usage: :--even thus, (manner) like, so.
Strong's first: Luke 6:23Strong's last: Luke 6:23
Open full G5024 profile →ʼâch · awkh
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like 1])
Strong's KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 18:10Strong's last: Ezekiel 18:10
Open full H251 profile →bad · bad
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides
Strong's KJV usage: alone, apart, bar, besides, branch, by self, of each alike, except, only, part, staff, strength.
Strong's first: Exodus 30:34Strong's last: Exodus 30:34
Open full H905 profile →dᵉmûwth · dem-ooth'
resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like
Strong's KJV usage: fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude.
Strong's first: Psalms 58:4Strong's last: Psalms 58:4
Open full H1823 profile →dimyôwn · dim-yone'
resemblance
Strong's KJV usage: × like.
Strong's first: Psalms 17:12Strong's last: Psalms 17:12
Open full H1825 profile →hêm · haym
they (only used when emphatic)
Strong's KJV usage: it, like, × (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, × so, × such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 36:32Strong's last: Jeremiah 36:32
Open full H1992 profile →hên · hane
they (only used when emphatic)
Strong's KJV usage: × in, such like, (with) them, thereby, therein, (more than) they, wherein, in which, whom, withal.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 18:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 18:14
Open full H2004 profile →châshab · khaw-shab'
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
Strong's KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Strong's first: Jonah 1:4Strong's last: Jonah 1:4
Open full H2803 profile →kôh · ko
properly, like this, i.e. by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
Strong's KJV usage: also, here, hitherto, like, on the other side, so (and much), such, on that manner, (on) this (manner, side, way, way and that way), mean while, yonder.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 23:29Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:29
Open full H3541 profile →kên · kane
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Strong's KJV usage: after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, (for-) asmuch as yet, be (for which) cause, following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), × the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, × you.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:20Strong's last: 1 Kings 10:20
Open full H3651 profile →mâshâl · maw-shawl'
properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
Strong's KJV usage: byword, like, parable, proverb.
Strong's first: Job 13:12Strong's last: Job 13:12
Open full H4912 profile →môshel · mo'-shel
empire; a parallel
Strong's KJV usage: dominion, like.
Strong's first: Job 41:33Strong's last: Job 41:33
Open full H4915 profile →ʻim · eem
adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
Strong's KJV usage: accompanying, against, and, as (× long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al).
Strong's first: Psalms 73:5Strong's last: Psalms 73:5
Open full H5973 profile →ʻim · eem
Strong's KJV usage: by, from, like, to(-ward), with.
Strong's first: Daniel 5:21Strong's last: Daniel 5:21
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And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.
There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
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LIKE, adjective [Latin , Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]
1. Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.
More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before.
2. Similar; resembling; having resemblance.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.
James 5:17.
Why might not other planets have been created for like uses with the earth, each for its own inhabitants?
LIKE is usually followed by to or unto, but it is often omitted.
What city is like unto this great city? Revelation 18:18.
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. Revelation 16:13.
Among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Daniel 1:19.
3. Probably; likely, that is, having the resemblance or appearance of an event; giving reason to expect or believe.
He is like to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread. Jeremiah 38:9.
Many were not easy to be governed, not like to conform themselves to strict rules.
LIKE, noun [elliptically, for like thing, like event, like person.]
1. some person or thing resembling another; an equal. The like lmay never happen again.
He was a man, take him for all and all, I shall not look upon his like again.
2. had like in the phrase, 'he had like to be defeated, ' seems to be a corruption; but perhaps like here is used for resemblance or probability, and has the character of a noun. At any rate, as a phrase, it is authorized by good usage.
LIKE, adverb
1. In the same manner.
- Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6:8. Luke 12:27.
LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psalms 103:5.
2. In a manner becoming.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 1 Samuel 4:9.
3. Likely; probably; as like enough it will.
LIKE, verb transitive [Latin placeo and delecto, with prefixes.]
1. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve. it expresses less than love and delight. We like a plan or design, when we approve of it as correct or beneficial. We like the character or conduct of a man when it comports with our view of rectitude. We like food that the taste relishes. We like whatever gives us pleasure.
He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving.
2. to please; to be agreeable to.
This desire being recommended to her majesty, it like her to include the same within one entire lease. obsolete
3. To liken. obsolete
LIKE, verb intransitive
1. To be pleased; to choose.
He may go or stay, as he likes.
2. To like of, to be pleased. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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