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Christian Standard Bible ®

Ezekiel 10:10

In appearance, all four looked alike, like a wheel within a wheel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wheel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cherubim;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Cherub, Cherubim;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cherubim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Cherub;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Living Creature;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
King James Version
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
English Standard Version
And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.
New American Standard Bible
And as for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
New Century Version
All four wheels looked alike: Each looked like a wheel crossways inside another wheel.
Amplified Bible
As for their appearance, all four looked alike, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
World English Bible
As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And their appearance (for they were all foure of one facion) was as if one wheele had bene in another wheele.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
Legacy Standard Bible
As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
Berean Standard Bible
As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.
Contemporary English Version
Each wheel was exactly the same and had a second wheel that cut through the middle of it,
Complete Jewish Bible
Their shape was the same for all four, like a wheel inside a wheel.
Darby Translation
And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were four wheels, and they all looked the same. They looked like there was a wheel in a wheel.
George Lamsa Translation
And as for their appearance and the form, the four of them were alike, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
Lexham English Bible
Their appearance was the same for each of the four of them, as if the wheel was in the midst of a wheel.
Literal Translation
And their appearance was as one, the four of them, as if the wheel were in the midst of the wheel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yet (vnto the sight) were they fashioned & like, as yf one whele had bene in another.
American Standard Version
And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been within a wheel.
Bible in Basic English
In form the four of them were all the same, they seemed like a wheel inside a wheel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been within a wheel.
King James Version (1611)
And as for their appearances, they foure had one likenes as if a wheele had bene in the midst of a wheele.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As touchyng their appearaunce (they were all foure of one fashion) as yf one wheele had ben in another.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
English Revised Version
And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been within a wheel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the biholdyng of tho was o licnesse of foure, as if a wheel be in the myddis of a wheel.
Update Bible Version
And as for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, as if a wheel had been inside a wheel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
New English Translation
As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel.
New King James Version
As for their appearance, all four looked alike--as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
New Living Translation
All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.
New Life Bible
All four of them looked the same. Each looked like they had one wheel inside another wheel.
New Revised Standard
And as for their appearance, the four looked alike, something like a wheel within a wheel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and as for their appearance, one likeness had they our,-as might be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
Revised Standard Version
And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.
Young's Literal Translation
As to their appearances, one likeness [is] to them four, as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.

Contextual Overview

8The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings. 9I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. The luster of the wheels was like the gleam of beryl. 10In appearance, all four looked alike, like a wheel within a wheel. 11When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction, without pivoting as they went. 12Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, wings, and the wheels that the four of them had, were full of eyes all around. 13As I listened the wheels were called “the wheelwork.” 14Each one had four faces: one was the face of a cherub, the second the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal. 16When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when they lifted their wings to rise from the earth, even then the wheels did not veer away from them. 17When the cherubim stopped, the wheels stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:16, Psalms 36:6, Psalms 97:2, Psalms 104:24, Romans 11:33

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:30 - wheels Ezekiel 1:6 - And every one had four faces

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:9
Therefore it is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.
Genesis 14:1
In those days King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim
Isaiah 10:9
Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?
Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people who survive—from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west.
Isaiah 39:1
At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
Jeremiah 50:21
Attack the land of Merathaim,and those living in Pekod.Put them to the sword;completely destroy them—
Daniel 1:2
The Lord handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels from the house of God. Nebuchadnezzar carried them to the land of Babylon, to the house of his god, and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.
Amos 6:2
Cross over to Calneh and see;go from there to great Hamath;then go down to Gath of the Philistines.Are you better than these kingdoms?Is their territory larger than yours?
Micah 4:10
Writhe and cry out, Daughter Zion,like a woman in labor,for now you will leave the cityand camp in the open fields.You will go to Babylon;there you will be rescued;there the Lord will redeem youfrom the grasp of your enemies!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness,.... They were exactly like one another; they were all composed of the same matter, had all the colour of a beryl stone, were all in the same form of a wheel; and in matter, form, and shape, entirely tallied and agreed one with another, as true Gospel churches do:

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as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel: not included in one another, but were formed in a cross or transverse way;

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 10:10. A wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. — It is difficult to comprehend this description. It is generally supposed to mean one wheel within another, cutting each other at right angles. This, in my opinion, will not account for the motions attributed to these wheels; nor can I see how, on this supposition, they could have any motion; for if one was moved on its axis, the other must be dragged contrary to its axis. I have conjectured it rather to mean a wheel within a wheel, or a wheel with two rims, working on the same axis. See on Ezekiel 1:16-18. It is however no matter of faith; and the reader may judge as he thinks proper. For other matters relative to this chariot, wheels, cherubim, wings, &c., I must refer to the notes on the first chapter. And perhaps from the whole of this vision and its difficulties, he will see the propriety of the council of rabbins ordering Rabbi Ananias three hundred barrels of oil to light his lamp during the time it would be necessary for him to employ in explaining this one vision.


 
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