Ezekiel 1:6

Bible in Basic English

And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Hebrew Names Version
Everyone had four faces, and everyone of them had four wings.

King James Version
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

English Standard Version
but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

New American Standard Bible
Each of them had four faces and four wings.

New Century Version
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Amplified Bible
Each one had four faces and four wings.

World English Bible
Everyone had four faces, and everyone of them had four wings.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure wings.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Each of them had four faces and four wings.

Legacy Standard Bible
And each of them had four faces and four wings.

Berean Standard Bible
but each had four faces and four wings.

Contemporary English Version
except that each one had four faces and four wings.

Complete Jewish Bible
but each one had four faces and four wings.

Darby Translation
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

Easy-to-Read Version
But each one of them had four faces and four wings.

George Lamsa Translation
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

Good News Translation
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Lexham English Bible
and each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

Literal Translation
and four faces were to each, and four wings to each of them,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that euery one had foure faces and foure wynges.

American Standard Version
and every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

King James Version (1611)
And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure wings.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And euery one had foure faces, and euery one of them had foure wynges.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

English Revised Version
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And foure faces weren to oon, and foure wyngis weren to oon.

Update Bible Version
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

Webster's Bible Translation
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

New English Translation
but each had four faces and four wings.

New King James Version
Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

New Living Translation
except that each had four faces and four wings.

New Life Bible
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

New Revised Standard
Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and four faces each, and four wings each, had they;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.

Revised Standard Version
but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

Young's Literal Translation
and four faces [are] to each, and four wings [are] to each of them,

Contextual Overview

⁴ And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum. ⁵ And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man. ⁶ And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. ⁷ And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass. ⁸ And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the four of them had faces on their four sides. ⁹ They went without turning, every one went straight forward. ¹⁰ As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a man, and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle. ¹¹ And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies. ¹² Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning. ¹³ And between the living beings it was like burning coals of fire, as if flames were going one after the other between the living beings; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went thunder-flames.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And every one had four faces: These living creatures were probably hieroglyphical representations of the holy angels, the attendants on "the King of Glory," and the ministers of his providence. They were four, apparently to denote that they were employed in the four corners of the world; and they had the likeness of a man, to signify that they were intelligent and rational creatures. Ezekiel 1:10, Ezekiel 1:15, Ezekiel 10:10, Ezekiel 10:14, Ezekiel 10:21, Ezekiel 10:22, Revelation 4:7, Revelation 4:8

every one had four wings: Ezekiel 1:8-11, Exodus 25:20, 1 Kings 6:24-27, Isaiah 6:2

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

Genesis 1:7
And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

Genesis 1:22
And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And or but everyone had four faces,.... Which are described,

:-. The Targum multiplies the faces in a strange monstrous manner, paraphrasing the words thus,

"each had four faces, and there were four faces to everyone "of them", and every creature had sixteen faces; the number of the faces of the four creatures was sixty and four;''

and everyone had four wings; the seraphim in Isaiah 6:2; and the four beasts or living creatures in Revelation 4:8; had six wings; and so it seems that these had also, from Ezekiel 1:11; as will be seen there; nor is this any contradiction to the account here given, since it is not said they had only four wings. The Targum gives the same monstrous account of their wings as of their faces, saying,

"each had four wings, and there were four wings for everyone of them, sixteen wings to every face, and sixty four to every creature; and the number of the wings of the four living creatures were two hundred and fifty six.''

Jarchi is of the same opinion, and confirms it in his note on the text, which is this,

""four faces to one"; that is, to the face of a man only were four faces, and so, to the lion, to the eagle, and to the ox, lo, sixteen to a living creature, and so to every living creature; and four wings to everyone of the faces, lo, sixty and four wings to a living creatures and which, according to the Targum of Jonathan, amounts to two hundred and fifty six wings;''

what these wings signified, Ezekiel 1:11- :;

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the Revelation of John each “beast” has its own distinctive character, here each unites in itself the four characters; there each has six wings, like the Seraphim Isaiah 6:2, here only four.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 1:6. Every one had four faces — There were four several figures of these living creatures, and each of these figures had four distinct faces: but as the face of the man was that which was presented to the prophet's view, so that he saw it more plainly than any of the others; hence it is said, Ezekiel 1:5, that each of these figures had the likeness of a man; and the whole of this compound image bore a general resemblance to the human figure.