Ezekiel 1:6

Brenton's Septuagint

And each one had four faces, and each one 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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

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 I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and there was brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it. ⁵ And in the midst as it were the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; the likeness of a man was upon them. ⁶ And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings. ⁷ And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and there were sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light. ⁸ And the hand of a man was under their wings on their four sides. ⁹ And the faces of them four turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward. ¹⁰ And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right of the four; and the face of a calf on the left of the four; and the face of an eagle to the four. ¹¹ And the four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies. ¹² And each one went straight forward: wherever the spirit was going they went, and turned not back. ¹³ And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.

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
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, 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 firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.

Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on 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.