- ὁμοίωσις
- ὁμοίωσις, εως, ἡ (ὁμοιόω) state of being similar, likeness, resemblance (so since Pla., Theaet. 176b; Aristot., De Plant. 2, 6, 826b, 32f; Plut., Mor. 53c; Sext. Emp., Hyp. Pyrrh. 75 καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν κρίνειν; LXX; TestNapht 2:2; Hippol. Ref. 1, 20, 17 ὁμ. θεῷ; Jos., Ant. 13, 67 καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν; Just., D. 77, 4; Tat.) καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν (w. κατʼ εἰκόνα in Gen 1:26, as also in Philo; Iren. 5, 16, 2 [Harv. II 368, 4]; Did., Gen. 59, 5; Theoph. Ant. 2, 18 [p. 144, 7]). The pass. in Genesis is quoted 1 Cl 33:5; B 5:5; 6:12, and Js 3:9 uses it freely (cp. Did., Gen. 56, 28). HMerki, ΟΜΟΙΩΣΙΣ ΘΕῼ ’52 (Pla. to Greg. of Nyssa).—DELG s.v. ὅμοιο. M-M. TW. Sv.
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