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New Century Version

Ezekiel 10:10

All four wheels looked alike: Each looked like a wheel crossways inside another 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.
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

8 Something that looked like a human hand could be seen under the wings of the living creatures. 9 I saw the four wheels by the living creatures, one wheel by each living creature. The wheels looked like shining chrysolite. 10 All four wheels looked alike: Each looked like a wheel crossways inside another wheel. 11 When the wheels moved, they went in any of the directions that the four living creatures faced. The wheels did not turn about, and the living creatures did not turn their bodies as they went. 12 All their bodies, their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all over. Each of the four living creatures had a wheel. 13 I heard the wheels being called "whirling wheels." 14 Each living creature had four faces. The first face was the face of a creature with wings. The second face was a human face, the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle. 15 Then the living creatures flew up. They were the same living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River. 16 When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them. When the living creatures lifted their wings to fly up from the ground, the wheels did not leave their place beside them. 17 When the living creatures stopped, the wheels stopped. When the creatures went up, the wheels went up also, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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 moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
Genesis 11:9
The place is called Babel since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.
Genesis 14:1
Now Amraphel was king of Babylonia, Arioch was king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer was king of Elam, and Tidal was king of Goiim.
Isaiah 10:9
The city Calno is like the city Carchemish. The city Hamath is like the city Arpad. The city Samaria is like the city Damascus.
Isaiah 11:11
At that time the Lord will again reach out and take his people who are left alive in Assyria, North Egypt, South Egypt, Cush, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 39:1
At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan was king of Babylon. He sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick and was now well.
Jeremiah 50:21
"Attack the land of Merathaim. Attack the people who live in Pekod. Chase them, kill them, and completely destroy them. Do everything I commanded you!" says the Lord .
Daniel 1:2
The Lord allowed Nebuchadnezzar to capture Jehoiakim king of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the things from the Temple of God, which he carried to Babylonia and put in the temple of his gods.
Amos 6:2
Go look at the city of Calneh, and from there go to the great city Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. You are no better than these kingdoms. Your land is no larger than theirs.
Micah 4:10
People of Jerusalem, strain and be in pain. Be like a woman trying to give birth, because now you must leave the city and live in the field. You will go to Babylon, but you will be saved from that place. The Lord will go there and buy you back 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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