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saying, That we never saw the like’; Shaks. Jud. Ces. I. ii. 315— ‘'Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes.’
The verb ‘to like’ is both trans. and intrans. The trans. verb means either to ‘ be agreeable to,’ ‘please’; so Sir 1617 ‘Before man is life and death ; and whether him liketh shall be given him’ (ὃ ἐὰν εὐδοκήσῃ ; RV ‘ whichsoever he liketh’) ; ef. Erasmus, Commune Crede, fol. 4, ‘For so it hath pleased god and hath lyked him to geve his benefites and gyftes to one man, by another man’; fol. 38 ‘The lorde hethe made all thynges, what so ever it hath liked hym, in heven and in earthe’ ; Pr. Bk. ‘Of Ceremonies,’ ‘Some be so new-fangled, that they would innovate all things, and so despise the old, that nothing can like them, but that is new’: or else it means to ‘be pleased with,’ ‘approve of,’ so 1 Ch 284 ‘among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel’ (πὸ) 3, RV ‘he took pleasure in me’). Usually this trans. verb is used impersonally, Dt 23! ‘ where it liketh him best’ (ὃν a2, LXX οὗ ἐὰν ἀρέσῃ αὐτῷ); Est 85 ‘asit liketh you’ (0232 353}: Am 4° ‘for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel’ (On208 13 3, LXX ὅτι ταῦτα ἠγάπησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραήλ) ; Sir 33 ‘As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion it at his pleasure ; so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best.’ Cf. Gn 16° Wye. (13888) ‘Lo! thi ser- vauntesse is in thin hond; use thou hir as it likith’; Hall, Works, ii. 45, ‘It likes thee well, that the Kingdom of heaven should suffer violence.’
The intrans. verb occurs twice, Dt 257 ‘And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife’ (yan: xb); and Ro 1° ‘And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge’ (οὐκ édoxt- μασαν, RV ‘they refused’).
In 1 Es 439 is found the obsolete form ‘like of,’ ‘all men do well like of her works’ (πάντες εὐδοκοῦσι τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτῆς), Which is retained in RV. So in Preface to AV, ‘Solomon was greater than David. . .. But was that his magnificence liked of by all? We doubt of it’; Melvill’s Diary, p. 362, ‘The King had determined to bring ham the Papist Lords again, and lyked of nan that wald nocht wag as the bus waggit’; Defoe, Crusoe, p: 274, ‘Upon the Captain’s coming to me, I told 1im my Project for seizing the Ship, which he lik’d of wonderfully well.’
The verb to liken is of frequent occurrence, and means to compare, as Is 4018 ‘To whom then will ye liken God?’ Cf. Tindale, Works, i. 107, ‘On this wise Paul also (Ro 5) likeneth Adam and Christ together, saying that Adam was a figure of Christ.’
For likeness see IMAGE.
Likewise is sometimes a mere conj., also, as Dt 12% ‘even so will I do likewise’ (02, LXX ποιήσω κἀγώ), especially in NT as tr. of καί. But more frequently it is an adverb, in the same way ; thus, Jg 77 ‘Look on me, and do likewise’ (15); Est 4'° f also and my maidens will fast likewise’ (19); Lk 22% ‘Likewise also the cup after supper’ (ὡσαύτως) ; Rev 8” (ὁμοίως). In Mt 21“ we have the expression ‘in like wise,’ but the meaning is sey also, ‘Lin like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things’ (κἀγώ, RV ‘I like- wise’). Cf. Jn 5*! Tind. ‘For lykwyse as the father rayseth up the deed’; and Lever, Sermons, Ρ. 108, ‘ Excepte ye spedelye repente and amende, ye shall everye one be lykewyse served.’
The subst. liking was at one time in use in the sense of outward appearance, and then such an adj. as ‘good’ or ‘ill’ qualilied it. It occurs once in AV, Job 394 ‘Their young ones are in good liking’ (35m). In the same sense ‘liking is used as an adj. in Dn 1° ‘why sbould he see
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your faces worse liking (ΟΞ ἢ) than the children which are of your sort?’ Wyclif (1388) uses the subst. in Gn 2” in the sense of delight, ‘And a ryver yede out fro the place of likyng to moyste paradis’ (1380, ‘the place of delice’). For the adj. cf. Ps 92 Pr. Bk. ‘They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking’ (in 1539, ‘ well lykenge’).* J. HASTINGS.
LIKHI (πρὸ, B Aaxeelu, A Aaxerd).—The eponym
a Manassite family, 1 Ch 7 See GENEALOGY, hdl
LILITH (πὸ; LXX ὀνοκένταυροι ; Symm. λάμια τ λαμία] ; Vulg. lamia).—Is 34" RVm (only); AV ‘screech owl’; AVm and RV ‘night monster’; Cheyne ‘night fairy’ (in PB ‘Lilith’).’ The Heb. aa occurs in a description of the scene of desolation among Edom’s rine fortresses, where ‘the wild beasts of the desert (o»y) meet with the wolves (ox), and the satyr (vyy) cries to his fellow, and Lilith takes up her abode.’ The reference is not to an animal, but to a female demon of popular super- stition, analogous to the ‘aliéikah or vampire of Pr 30. The Jewish belief in Lilith probably grew up during the Exile; the name was unquestionably borrowed from Babylonia (ef. the Assyr. Jil and lilit). Lilith was a demon (Aq¥) regarded by the Jews as specially hostile to children, although grown-up persons were also in danger from her (ef. the "Ἑμπουσα of the Greeks, the Strix and Lamia of the Romans, and the ghils of the Arabs).