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Ezekiel 10:10

There were four wheels, and they all looked the same. They looked like there was a wheel in 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

Christian Standard Bible®
In appearance, all four looked alike, like a wheel within a wheel.
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.
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

8 (The Cherub angels had what looked like human arms under their wings.) 9 Then I noticed that there were four wheels. There was one wheel by each Cherub angel, and the wheels looked like a clear yellow jewel. 10 There were four wheels, and they all looked the same. They looked like there was a wheel in a wheel. 11 They could go in any direction when they moved, but the Cherub angels did not turn around when they moved. They went in the direction that the head was looking. They did not turn around when they moved. 12 There were eyes all over their bodies. There were eyes on their backs, on their arms, on their wings, and on their wheels—on all four wheels! 13 These wheels were what I heard called, "the area between the wheels." 14Each Cherub angel had four faces. The first was the face of a Cherub, the second was the face of a man, the third was a lion's face, and the fourth was an eagle's face. (These Cherub angels were the living beings I saw in the vision by the Kebar Canal.) Then the Cherub angels rose into the air, 16 and the wheels rose with them. When the Cherub angels raised their wings and flew into the air, not even the wheels turned around. 17 If they flew into the air, the wheels went with them. If they stood still, so did the wheels, because the spirit of the living being was in them. 18 Then the Glory of the Lord rose from the threshold of the Temple, moved to the place over the Cherub angels, and stopped there.

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
Then people began to move from the East. They found a plain in the land of Babylonia and stayed there to live.
Genesis 11:9
That is the place where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. That is why it is called Babel. And it was from there that the Lord caused the people to spread out to all the other places on earth.
Genesis 14:1
Amraphel was the king of Babylonia, Arioch was the king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer was the king of Elam, and Tidal was the king of Goiim.
Isaiah 10:9
The city of Calno is no better than the city of Carchemish. Arpad is like Hamath, and Samaria is like Damascus.
Isaiah 11:11
At that time the Lord will again reach out and take his people who are left in countries like Assyria, North Egypt, South Egypt, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and other faraway countries around the world.
Isaiah 39:1
At that time Merodach Baladan son of Baladan was king of Babylon. He sent some men with letters and a gift to Hezekiah when he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
Jeremiah 50:21
The Lord says, "Attack the country of Merathaim! Attack the people living in Pekod! Attack them! Kill them and destroy them completely! Do everything I commanded you!
Daniel 1:2
The Lord allowed Nebuchadnezzar to defeat Jehoiakim king of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar took all the dishes and other things from God's Temple and carried them to Babylon. He put those things in the temple of his gods.
Amos 6:2
Go look at Calneh. From there, go to the large city Hamath. Go to the Philistine city of Gath. Are you better than these kingdoms? Their countries are larger than yours.
Micah 4:10
Cry out, you people of Jerusalem, and feel the pain, as if you were giving birth. You must go out of the city and live in the fields. You will go away to Babylon, but you will also be saved from that place. The Lord will come and rescue you there. He will take you away from 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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