Word study
Likewise
4 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “likewise”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “likewise” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- כֵּן kênright, veritable, honesttranslated this way 6 times of its 461 uses · Strong’s H3651Adverb · Translated: Therefore 159, so 111, this 24, way 13Full study and all 451 verses →
Exodus 22:30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
Joshua 23:15 But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
- גַּם gamalso, moreover, yeatranslated this way 2 times of its 625 uses · Strong’s H1571Conjunction · Translated: even 107, and 100, also 64, too 43Full study and all 565 verses →
Deuteronomy 12:30 be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
Judges 1:3 Then the men of Judah said to their brothers the Simeonites, “Come up with us to our allotted territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. And we likewise will go with you to your territory.” So the Simeonites went with them.
- עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 2 times of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb · Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112Full study and all 2,206 verses →
- אָז âzat that time, thentranslated this way 2 times of its 119 uses · Strong’s H227Adverb · Translated: then 63, time 23, long ago 5, and 4Full study and all 116 verses →
2 Kings 8:22 So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.
2 Chronicles 21:10 So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his hand at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ὁμοίως homoíōsin like mannertranslated this way 6 times of its 26 uses · Strong’s G3668Adverb · Translated: way 9, likewise 6, the same 2Full study and all 26 verses →
Luke 10:37 “The one who showed him mercy,” replied the expert in the law. Then Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Romans 1:27 Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
- ὡσαύτως hōsaútōslikewisetranslated this way 5 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s G5615Adverb · Translated: way 7, likewise 5, thing 3, the same 1Full study and all 16 verses →
Matthew 25:17 Likewise, the one with the two talents gained two more.
Mark 12:21 Then the second one married the widow, but he also died and left no children. And the third did likewise.
- οὕτω hoútōthus, so, in this mannertranslated this way 2 times of its 163 uses · Strong’s G3779Adverb · Translated: so 67, way 33, this 10, like 8Full study and all 161 verses →
Matthew 5:19 So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.