Similitude

si-mil'-i-tud: In the King James Version means either "an exact facsimile" (Ps 106:20 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "likeness"; Rom 5:14, etc.), or else "the form itself" (Num 12:8; Deut 4:12; Deut 4:15; Deut 4:16 for temunah, "form" (so the Revised Version (British and American))); compare LIKENESS. the English Revised Version has retained the word in 2 Chr 4:3; Dan 10:16 (the American Standard Revised Version "likeness"), while the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version have used "similitudes" in Hos 12:10 (damah, "be like"). The meaning is "I have inspired the prophets to speak parables."