Ezekiel 1:16
What does Ezekiel 1:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 1:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The appearance of the wheels and their works <FI>is<Fi> as the colour of beryl, and one likeness <FI>is<Fi> to them four, and their appearances and their works <FI>are<Fi> as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The appearance of the wheels and their work was as the look of a chrysolite; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:10
That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number.
- Psalms 40:5
Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward: They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
- Ephesians 3:10
to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
- Daniel 10:6
his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like unto burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
- Ezekiel 10:9
And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like unto a beryl stone.
- Exodus 39:13
and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in inclosings of gold in their settings.
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