εἰκών

Matthew 22:20 εἰκὼν likeness

“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”

Here: The stamped portrait head on the denarius, almost certainly the emperor Tiberius in profile. It is a concrete picture, but in Jewish ears eikōn was also the word for idols and for humanity made 'in God's image' (Gen 1:26-27 in Greek).

Mark 12:16 εἰκὼν likeness

So they brought it, and He asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.

Luke 20:24 εἰκόνα [the] image

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.

Romans 1:23 εἰκόνος of an image

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Here: An image or representation, used everyday of cult statues and portraits, including images of the emperor. 'Likeness of an image' piles up two words for 'representation.' This stresses how secondhand the replacement is, and it may echo humans made 'in the image' of God (Genesis 1:26).

Romans 8:29 εἰκόνος image

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Here: 'Image.' The word recalls humanity made 'according to the image' of God (Genesis 1:26–27 in the Greek Old Testament) and Christ as 'the image of God' (2 Corinthians 4:4). Believers come to share the form that the Son's image has.

1 Corinthians 11:7 εἰκὼν image

A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

Here: Points straight to Genesis 1:26–27 in the Greek Old Testament ('according to the image', kat' eikona). The man is God's representative likeness, the one who shows God's presence.

1 Corinthians 15:49 εἰκόνα εἰκόνα image

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

Here: The visible form that reproduces and represents its original. Here it means the kind of body and existence inherited from Adam. It echoes Genesis 5:3, where Adam fathers Seth 'according to his image'.

2 Corinthians 3:18 εἰκόνα image

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Here: The image is Christ, "the image of God" (4:4). It also echoes humanity made "in the image" of God (Gen 1:26–27). The likeness believers are being reshaped into is his.

2 Corinthians 4:4 εἰκὼν [the] image

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Here: The image that makes God visible and present. It echoes Genesis 1:26–27 (humanity made 'according to the image') and Jewish wisdom writing (Wisdom 7:26).

Colossians 1:15 εἰκὼν [the] image

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Here: The visible form in which someone or something is represented and made present. Here the Son is where the God no one can see is shown. Like the Greek, it has no "the": he is the image itself, not one of many.

Colossians 3:10 εἰκόνα [the] image

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Here: An echo of the creation of humanity "in the image of God," and of Colossians 1:15, where Christ is "the image of the invisible God." The new humanity is being re-formed to that pattern.

Hebrews 10:1 εἰκόνα form

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Here: Here it does not mean a copy. Set against 'shadow', it means the real thing made visible in its full form. The law had the silhouette, not the solid figure.

Revelation 13:14 εἰκόνα an image

Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.

Here: A cult image: a statue (or portrait) of the ruler, set up to receive honour and worship. This is the ordinary word for imperial statues in the Roman East.

Revelation 13:15 εἰκόνι εἰκὼν εἰκόνι image

The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.

Here: The image the earth-dwellers were told to make in v. 14. In the Roman world this word was used for statues and portraits of the emperor.

Revelation 14:9 εἰκόνα image

And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand,

Here: The image of the beast that the second beast has people set up (13:14–15). Like the statue in Daniel 3, it is the visible object people must bow before or face death.

Revelation 14:11 εἰκόνα image

And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

Here: The statue set up and made to speak by the second beast (13:14–15). Cities of Asia Minor had cult statues of the emperor, and sacrifice was offered before them.

Revelation 15:2 εἰκόνος image

And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

Here: A cult statue or likeness set up to be worshipped (13:14-15). John's readers would think of emperor statues in the temples and public squares of Asia Minor.

Revelation 16:2 εἰκόνι image

So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

Here: The cult image of the beast that the second beast set up and made to speak (13:14–15). Readers would think of statues of rulers and Nebuchadnezzar's golden image in Daniel 3.

Revelation 19:20 εἰκόνι image

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Here: A cult statue of the beast. It recalls Nebuchadnezzar's golden image in Daniel 3 and the emperors' statues that stood in the cities of Asia.

Revelation 20:4 εἰκόνα image

Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Here: The cult statue of the beast (13:14–15). Readers in Asia would have pictured emperor statues in temples and public squares.