Ezekiel 1:6

King James Version (1611 Edition)

And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure 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.

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 I looked, and behold, a whirlewinde came out of the North, a great cloude, and a fire infoulding it selfe, and a brightnesse was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. ⁵ Also out of the midst thereof came the likenesse of foure liuing creatures, and this was their appearance: they had the likenesse of a man. ⁶ And euery one had foure faces, and euery one had foure wings. ⁷ And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calues foot, and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brasse. ⁸ And they had the handes of a man vnder their wings on their foure sides, and they foure had their faces and their wings. ⁹ Their wings were ioyned one to another, they turned not when they went: they went euery one straight forward. ¹⁰ As for the likenesse of their faces, they foure had the face of a man, and the face of a lyon on the right side, and they foure had the face of an oxe on the left side: they foure also had the face of an eagle. ¹¹ Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched vpward, two wings of euery one were ioyned one to an other, and two couered their bodies. ¹² And they went euery one straight forward: whither the spirit was to goe, they went: and they turned not when they went. ¹³ As for the likenesse of the liuing creatures, their appearance was like burning coles of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went vp and downe among the liuing creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went foorth 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 darknesse he called Night: and the euening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it diuide the waters from the waters.

Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament; and diuided the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters, which were aboue the firmament: and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought foorth grasse, and herbe yeelding seed after his kinde, and the tree yeelding fruit, whose seed was in it selfe, after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:13
And the euening and the morning were the third day.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there bee lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide the day from the night: and let them be for signes and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flie aboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen.

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and fill the waters in the Seas, and let foule multiply 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.