Ezekiel 10:13

Young's Literal Translation

To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, `O wheel!'

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
These wheels were what I heard called, "the area between the wheels."

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.

Contextual Overview

⁸ And there appeareth in the cherubs the form of a hand of man under their wings, ⁹ and I look, and lo, four wheels near the cherubs, one wheel near the one cherub, and another wheel near the other cherub, and the appearance of the wheels [is] as the colour of a beryl stone. ¹⁰ As to their appearances, one likeness [is] to them four, as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel. ¹¹ In their going, on their four sides they go; they turn not round in their going, for to the place whither the head turneth, after it they go, they turn not round in their going. ¹² And all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, are full of eyes round about; to them four [are] their wheels. ¹³ To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, `O wheel!' ¹⁴ And four faces [are] to each; the face of the one [is] the face of the cherub, and the face of the second the face of man, and of the third the face of a lion, and of the fourth the face of an eagle. ¹⁵ And the cherubs are lifted up, it [is] the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. ¹⁶ And in the going of the cherubs, the wheels go beside them; and in the cherubs lifting up their wings to be high above the earth, the wheels turn not round, even they, from being beside them. ¹⁷ In their standing they stand, and in their exaltation they are exalted with them: for the living spirit [is] in them.

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
from that land he hath gone out to Asshur, and buildeth Nineveh, even the broad places of the city, and Calah,

Genesis 10:12
and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah; it [is] the great city.

Jeremiah 46:9
Go up, ye horses; and boast yourselves, ye chariots, And go forth, ye mighty, Cush and Phut handling the shield, And Lud handling -- treading the bow.

Ezekiel 30:5
Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, And the sons of the land of the covenant with them by sword do fall,

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;

:-.

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."