Similitude

1. demuth, ’likeness, representation.’ 2Ch 4:3; Dan 10:16; Hos 12:10.

2. tabnith, ’pattern, form, structure.’ Psa 106:20; Psa 144:12.

3. temunah, ’form, appearance,’ which may not imply likeness. Num 12:8; Deu 4:12; Deu 4:15-16.

4. Three words derived from ὅμοιος, ’like, similar.’ Rom 5:14; Heb 7:15; Jas 3:9.

si-mil´i-tūd: In the King James Version means either “an exact facsimile” (Psa 106:20 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) “likeness”; Rom 5:14, etc.), or else “the form itself” (Num 12:8; Deu 4:12, Deu 4:15, Deu 4:16 for t^emūnāh, “form” (so the Revised Version (British and American)); compare LIKENESS. the English Revised Version has retained the word in 2Ch 4:3; Dan 10:16 (the American Standard Revised Version “likeness”), while the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have used “similitudes” in Hos 12:10 (דּמה, dāmāh, “be like”). The meaning is “I have inspired the prophets to speak parables.”