Topic
Shape
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Wisdom of Solomon 18:1ISBE
Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not suffered the same things, they counted them happy.
- Mark 16:12ISBE
¶ After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
- Luke 3:22ISBE
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
- John 5:37ISBE
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
- Romans 2:20ISBE
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
- Romans 6:17ISBE
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
- Philippians 2:6ISBE
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
- 2 Timothy 1:13ISBE
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
- 2 Timothy 3:5ISBE
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
- Revelation 9:7ISBE
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 12 references
shap: In the King James Version the translation of eidos, "form," "appearance" (Lu 3:22; Joh 5:37), and of homoioma, "likeness," "resemblance" (Re 9:7). The meaning of these words is not so much "tangible shape," in which sense we use the word in modern English, but rather "aspect," "appearance," the looks of a thing or a person. This is even the case where the word is joined with the adjective somatikos, "bodily" as in the passage Lu 3:22, "The Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form (i.e. "in a corporeal appearance," the King James Version "in a bodily shape"), as a dove, upon him." The second passage also refers to the "appearance" of God, and cannot therefore be regarded as material shape: "Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form" (the King James Version "shape") (Joh 5:37). As has been seen from the above quotations, the Revised Version (British and American) which retains the translation "shape" for homoioma, has translated eidos with "form," which also serves to render several other Greek synonyms, such as morphe (Mr 16:12; Php 2:6 f), morphosis (Ro 2:20; 2Ti 3:5), tupos (the Revised Version margin "pattern" Ro 6:17), and hupotuposis (the Revised Version (British and American) "pattern," 2Ti 1:13). In the King James Version The Wisdom of Solomon 18:1 "shape" translates morphe, the Revised Version (British and American) "form."
H. L. E. Luering
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.