Genesis 1:26
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
דְּמוּת
dᵉmûwth
resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שׇׁלְטָן
sholṭân
empire (abstractly or concretely)
דָּגָה
dâgâh
{a fish (often used collectively)}
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
עוֹף
ʻôwph
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
מִקְנֶה
miqneh
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
שֶׁרֶץ
sherets
a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
רָמַשׂ
râmas
properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
רָמַשׂ râmas
properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm
Study H7430 →עוֹף ʻôwph
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
Study H5775 →דְּמוּת dᵉmûwth
resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like
Study H1823 →שָׁמַיִם shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Study H8064 →מִקְנֶה miqneh
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
Study H4735 →יָם yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the sou...
Study H3220 →Cross References
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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