Bible Translation of In Our Image
Visitors have arrived at this site after searching for the meaning of phrases with the word "image" in Genesis chapter 1, verses 26 and 27, and specifically they wanted to know the Hebrew word as translated into current English from "Let us make man in our image". Here are the verses from the sixth day of creation.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. Genesis 1:27 (KJV)
The Hebrew for image in the phrases "in our image", "in his own image", and "in the image of God" were translated from the word tselem (TSEH-lem) which means resemblance. The phrase "after our likeness" is from the Hebrew word demuth (dem-OOTH) which means resemblance, or shape.
This leaves no doubt from the plural form in "our image" that this refers to God and the angels, and later "in his own image" in reference to God that our human form resembles our spiritual body in shape, likeness, and resemblance to God and the angels.
Readers may want to learn more about the word "man" in these verses as taken from the Hebrew adam (aw-DAWM) which means "mankind" including all of mankind, male and female as cited in verse 27. This reference to man during the 6th day creation from Genesis 1 was all the races including men and women. In Genesis chapter 2 the word "man" in English (from the Hebrew adam) in reference to Adam as in "Adam and Eve" translates from the Hebrew "eth ha adam", or the specific person named Adam.
An article on the main site explains the difference between man in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 in more detail.
We won't feel out of place in heaven, and for now consider each face you see in the diversity of human races is a glimpse of faces seen in heaven. The essence of the meaning of "image" or "likeness" as translated in the King James Version of the Bible is accurate, yet by today's English knowing the Hebrew definitions of "resemblance" and "shape" provides an even clearer meaning.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. Genesis 1:27 (KJV)
The Hebrew for image in the phrases "in our image", "in his own image", and "in the image of God" were translated from the word tselem (TSEH-lem) which means resemblance. The phrase "after our likeness" is from the Hebrew word demuth (dem-OOTH) which means resemblance, or shape.
This leaves no doubt from the plural form in "our image" that this refers to God and the angels, and later "in his own image" in reference to God that our human form resembles our spiritual body in shape, likeness, and resemblance to God and the angels.
Readers may want to learn more about the word "man" in these verses as taken from the Hebrew adam (aw-DAWM) which means "mankind" including all of mankind, male and female as cited in verse 27. This reference to man during the 6th day creation from Genesis 1 was all the races including men and women. In Genesis chapter 2 the word "man" in English (from the Hebrew adam) in reference to Adam as in "Adam and Eve" translates from the Hebrew "eth ha adam", or the specific person named Adam.
An article on the main site explains the difference between man in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 in more detail.
We won't feel out of place in heaven, and for now consider each face you see in the diversity of human races is a glimpse of faces seen in heaven. The essence of the meaning of "image" or "likeness" as translated in the King James Version of the Bible is accurate, yet by today's English knowing the Hebrew definitions of "resemblance" and "shape" provides an even clearer meaning.
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