Bible Dictionary
SIMILITUDE
Similitude means a likeness, representation, or form resembling something else. In older Bible usage it may refer to an image or likeness, and in Hosea it denotes the parabolic form in which God spoke through the prophets.
Definition
Similitude means likeness, representation, or form resembling something else. In older English Bible usage it can mean an exact likeness, the form itself, or a parabolic representation.
Biblical Usage
The term describes likeness or form in several passages and, in Hosea, refers to the parables through which God spoke by the prophets.
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>si-mil'-i-tud: In the King James Version means either "an exact facsimile" (Ps 106:20 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "likeness"; Ro 5:14, etc.), or else "the form itself" (Nu 12:8; De 4:12,15,16 for temunah, "form" (so the Revised Version (British and American))); compare LIKENESS. the English Revised Version has retained the word in 2Ch 4:3; Da 10:16 (the American Standard Revised Version "likeness"), while the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have used "similitudes" in Ho 12:10 (damah, "be like"). The meaning is "I have inspired the prophets to speak parables."</p>