Shape
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
(2): ( n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
(3): ( n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
(4): ( n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
(5): ( v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(6): ( n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
(7): ( n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
(8): ( n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
(9): ( n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(10): ( n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
(11): ( n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
(12): ( n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
rendered "shape" in the AV of Luke 3:22; John 5:37 : see Form , No. 4.
rendered "shapes" in Revelation 9:7 : see Likeness , No. 1.
King James Dictionary [3]
Shape pret. shaped pp. shaped or shapen.
1. To form or create.
I was shapen in iniquity. Psalms 51 .
2. To mold or make into a particular form to give form or figure to as, to shape a garment.
Grace shap'd her limbs, and beauty deck'd her face. Prior.
3. To mold to cast to regulate to adjust to adapt to a purpose. He shapes his plans or designs to the temper of the times. 4. To direct as, to shape a course. 5. To image to conceive.
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
shāp : In the King James Version the translation of εἶδος , eı́dos , "form," "appearance" ( Luke 3:22; John 5:37 ), and of ὁμοίωμα , homoı́ōma , "likeness," "resemblance" ( Revelation 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 σωματικός , sōmatikós , "bodily" as in the passage Luke 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") ( John 5:37 ). As has been seen from the above quotations, the Revised Version (British and American) which retains the translation "shape" for homoiōma , has translated eidos with "form," which also serves to render several other Greek synonyms, such as μορφή , morphḗ ( Mark 16:12; Philippians 2:6 f), μόρφωσις , mórphōsis ( Romans 2:20; 2 Timothy 3:5 ), τύπος , túpos (the Revised Version margin "pattern" Romans 6:17 ), and ὑποτύπωσις , hupotúpōsis (the Revised Version (British and American) "pattern," 2 Timothy 1:13 ). In the King James Version The Wisdom of Solomon 18:1 "shape" translates morphē , the Revised Version (British and American) "form."
