Bible word study

Temuwnah (Strong’s H8544): Meaning in the Bible

Temuwnah (תְּמוּנָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H8544 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as something portioned (i.e. fashioned) out, as a shape, i.e. (indefinitely) phantom, or (specifically) embodiment, or (figuratively) manifestation (of favor). In the King James Bible it is translated image, likeness, similitude..

• Original wordתְּמוּנָה
• Transliterationtᵉmûwnâh
• Pronunciationtem-oo-naw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH8544
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or תְּמֻנָה; from H4327;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Temuwnah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Temuwnah (H8544) stands behind 10 English renderings in 10 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (6), Exodus (1), Numbers (1).

How the King James Bible renders Temuwnah, by count

• likeness5 of 10 (50 percent)
• similitude4 of 10 (40 percent)
• image1 of 10 (10 percent)

Three places to read Temuwnah

• Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
• Deuteronomy 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
• Deuteronomy 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Temuwnah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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