Ezekiel 10:13

Easy-to-Read Version

These wheels were what I heard called, "the area between the wheels."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As I listened the wheels were called “the wheelwork.”

Hebrew Names Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

King James Version
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

English Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing "the whirling wheels."

New American Standard Bible
The wheels were called, as I heard, the whirling wheels.

New Century Version
I heard the wheels being called "whirling wheels."

Amplified Bible
Regarding the wheels [attached to them], I heard them called, "the whirling (rolling, revolving) wheels."

World English Bible
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Cherub cryed to these wheeles in mine hearing, saying, O wheele.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

Legacy Standard Bible
The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

Berean Standard Bible
I heard the wheels being called "the whirling wheels."

Contemporary English Version
And I heard a voice calling these "the wheels that spin."

Complete Jewish Bible
As for the wheels, I heard them called "the wheel apparatus."

Darby Translation
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, Galgal.

George Lamsa Translation
And as for the wheels, he called them Rolling Wheels, in my presence.

Good News Translation
I heard a voice calling out, "Whirling wheels."

Lexham English Bible
Concerning the wheels, he was calling them "the wheelwork" in my hearing.

Literal Translation
As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, Whirling wheel!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I herde him call ye wheles, Galgal (that is) a rounde boull.

American Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the whirling wheels.

Bible in Basic English
As for the wheels, they were named in my hearing, the circling wheels.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing The wheelwork.

King James Version (1611)
As for the wheeles, it was cried vnto them in my hearing, O wheele.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And to the wheeles, he cryed to them in my hearyng, O wheele,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing.

English Revised Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he clepide tho wheelis volible, ether able to go al aboute, in myn heryng.

Update Bible Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

Webster's Bible Translation
As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel.

New English Translation
As for their wheels, they were called "the wheelwork" as I listened.

New King James Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "Wheel."

New Living Translation
I heard someone refer to the wheels as "the whirling wheels."

New Life Bible
The wheels were called in my hearing, "the turning wheels."

New Revised Standard
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing "the wheelwork."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To the wheels - to them, was made the cry - O whirling wheel! in mine ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.

Revised Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the whirling wheels.

Young's Literal Translation
To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, `O 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

it was cried: etc. or, they were called in my hearing, Wheel, or Galgal. Ezekiel 10:13

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 1:15 - one

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
Nimrod also went into Assyria. In Assyria, Nimrod built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and

Genesis 10:12
Resen. (Resen is the city between Nineveh and Calah, the big city.)

Jeremiah 46:9
Horse soldiers, charge into battle. Chariot drivers, drive fast. March on, brave soldiers. Soldiers from Cush and Put, carry your shields. Soldiers from Lydia, use your bows.

Ezekiel 30:5
"‘Many people made peace agreements with Egypt. But all those people from Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya, and the people of Israel will be destroyed!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing,.... Or they were called, as the prophet heard in the vision, by the following name:

O wheel, or, "the wheel": for though there are several particular churches, yet they make up but one general assembly and Church of the firstborn, written in heaven; and will be all together in their perfect state, signified by the round form of the wheel;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

According to the marginal rendering the present verse refers back to Ezekiel 10:2, Ezekiel 10:6, and tells us that the name “galgal, a rolling thing” (compare Isaiah 17:13), was given to the wheels in the seer’s hearing. But taking Ezekiel 10:14 as a description, and reading Ezekiel 10:15 immediately after Ezekiel 10:13, the meaning is clear. In the hearing Of the seer a voice calls upon the wheels, and, obedient to the call, the cherubim are lifted up and the wheels roll on. The word “galgal” would be better rendered “chariot” instead of “wheel;” “chariot” representing very well the collection of “wheels.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 10:13. As for the wheels, it was cried unto them - O wheel. — Never was there a more unfortunate and unmeaning translation. The word הגלגל haggalgal, may signify, simply, the roller, or a chariot, or roll on, or the swift roller. And he clepide ilke wheelis volible, or turninge about. Old MS. Bible. Any of these will do: "and as to the wheels," לאופנים laophannim, "they were called in my hearing" הגלגל haggalgal, "the chariot." The gentleman who took for his text "O wheel!" and made God's decree of eternal predestination out of it, must have borrowed some of Rabbi Ananias's three hundred barrels of oil! But such working of God's word cannot be too severely reprehended.

As these wheels are supposed to represent Divine Providence, bringing about the designs of the Most thigh, how like is the above הגלגל haggalgal, taken as a verb, "roll on," to those words of Virgil in his Pollio: -

Talia saela, suis dixerunt, currite, fusis,

Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae.

"The Fates, when they this happy web have spun,

Shall bless the sacred clue, and bid it swiftly run."