Ezekiel 1:15 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 1:15

When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

BSB

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ASV

Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof.

KJV

Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Translate it: “one wheel upon the earth by” each of “the liviing creatures” on his four sides (i. e. on the four sides of each of the living creatures). There was a wheel to “each” of the living creatures: it was set “by,” i. e. immediately “beneath” the feet of the living creature, and was constructed for direct motion in any of the four lines in which the creatures themselves moved.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The cherubim and their wings and wheels stood in contrast to the symbolical figures, somewhat similar, then existing in Chaldea, and found in the remains of Assyria. The latter, though derived from the original revelation by tradition, came by corruption to symbolize the astronomical zodiac, or the sun and celestial sphere, by a circle with wings or irradiations.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֵ֖רֶא	va.'E.re'	and I saw	H7200 →
הַחַיּ֑וֹת	ha.chai.Yot	the living creatures	H2416 →
וְהִנֵּה֩	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
אוֹפַ֨ן	'o.Fan	a wheel	H212 →
אֶחָ֥ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
בָּאָ֛רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	[was] on the ground	H776 →
אֵ֥צֶל	'E.tzel	beside	H681 →
הַחַיּ֖וֹת	ha.chai.Yot	the living creatures	H2416 →
לְאַרְבַּ֥עַת	le.'ar.Ba.'at	for [the] four	H702 →
פָּנָֽיו׃	pa.Nav	faces its	H6440 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 4:7
The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
leads to
- Ezekiel 10:14
  Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 1:10
  The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side,…
- Ezekiel 10:21
  Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.
Through
Daniel 7:9
As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool.…
leads to
- Revelation 1:14
  The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
- Mark 9:3
  His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.
- Daniel 7:13
  In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led…
- Matthew 17:2
  There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
- Micah 5:2
  But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel