Shape
Shape
shap: In the King James Version the translation of , edos, form, appearance (Luk 3:22; Joh 5:37), and of , homooma, likeness, resemblance (Rev 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 Luk 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 (Mar 16:12; Phi 2:6 f), , morphosis (Rom 2:20; 2Ti 3:5), , tupos (the Revised Version margin pattern Rom 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.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Shape
rendered “shape” in the AV of Luk 3:22; Joh 5:37, see FORM, No. 4.
rendered “shapes” in Rev 9:7, see LIKENESS, No. 1.