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Douay-Rheims Bible

Ezekiel 10:10

And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of 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.
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.
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 And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a man’s hand under their wings. 9 And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone: 10 And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel. 11 And when they went, they went by four ways: and they turned not when they went: but to the place whither they first turned, the rest also followed, and did not turn back. 12 And their whole body, and their necks, and their hands, and their wings, and the circles were full of eyes, round about the four wheels. 13 And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing. 14 And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a cherub, and the second face, the face of a man: and in the third was the face of a lion: and in the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar. 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth, the wheels stayed not behind, but were by them. 17 When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life 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
And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
Genesis 11:9
And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
Genesis 14:1
And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and Thadal, king of nations,
Isaiah 10:9
Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 39:1
At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered.
Jeremiah 50:21
Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god.
Amos 6:2
Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.
Micah 4:10
Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy 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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