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Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />The wheels sparkled as if made of beryl. All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their work <i>was</i> like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work <i>was</i> as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their workings <i>was</i> like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings <i>was,</i> as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship <i>was</i> like sparkling topaz, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship <i>being</i> as if one wheel were within another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship <i>was</i> like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship <i>being</i> as if one wheel were within another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship <i>was</i> like the gleam of beryl, and all four of them had the same likeness, their appearance and workmanship <i>being</i> as if one wheel were within another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Regarding the appearance of the wheels and their construction: they gleamed like chrysolite (beryl, olivine); and the four were made alike. Their appearance and construction were a wheel [set at a right angle] within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their craftsmanship was like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their appearance and craftsmanship was like a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their craftsmanship was like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same form. Their appearance and craftsmanship was like a wheel within a wheel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />shining like chrysolite. Each wheel was exactly the same and had a second wheel that cut through the middle of it, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The 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 within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />This is how the wheels looked and how they were made: They looked like beryl. All four wheels looked the same. They looked like a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />All four wheels were alike; each one shone like a precious stone, and each had another wheel intersecting it at right angles, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Their wheels and their construction details looked like gold-colored beryl. Each wheel was identical in form to the others, and they appeared to have been constructed and designed as if one wheel were within another. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like gleaming jasper, and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />And the appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had the same likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color 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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the color of beryl, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearances and their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> The appearance of the wheels and their works is as the colour of beryl, and one likeness is to them four, and their appearances and their works are as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their works as the appearance of topaz: and one likeness to these four: and their appearance and their works as a wheel will be in the midst of the wheel.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And the appearance of the wheels and their work was like the appearance of the sea. And each of the four were similar to one another. And their appearance and work was like a wheel in the center of a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The wheels and their construction sparkled like yellow topaz, and all four of them looked the same: their construction seemed as though one wheel was inside the other.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl; and the four had the same form, their construction being something like a wheel within a wheel.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of a beryl; and they four had the one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And the appearance of the wheels and their work, as the appearance of chrysolite and the appearance was the same for the four of them; and their appearance and their work was like a wheel within a wheel<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />The 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 within a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness: and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=140" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/1.htm">The Four Wheels</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15</span>When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4639.htm" title="4639: ū·ma·‘ă·śê·hem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A deed, work. From asah; an action; generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product or property.">The workmanship</a> <a href="/hebrew/212.htm" title="212: hā·’ō·w·p̄an·nîm (Art:: N-mp) -- A wheel. Or pophan; from an unused root meaning to revolve; a wheel.">of the wheels</a> <a href="/hebrew/4758.htm" title="4758: mar·’êh (N-msc) -- Sight, appearance, vision. From ra'ah; a view; also an appearance, whether a shape, or a vision.">looked like</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: kə·‘ên (Prep-k:: N-csc) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">the gleam</a> <a href="/hebrew/8658.htm" title="8658: tar·šîš (N-ms) -- (a precious stone) perhaps yellow jasper. Probably of foreign derivation; a gem, perhaps the topaz.">of beryl,</a> <a href="/hebrew/702.htm" title="702: lə·’ar·ba‘·tān (Prep-l:: Number-msc:: 3fp) -- Four. Masculine oarbaah; from raba'; four.">and all four</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’e·ḥāḏ (Number-ms) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">had the same</a> <a href="/hebrew/1823.htm" title="1823: ū·ḏə·mūṯ (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- Likeness, similitude. From damah; resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like.">likeness.</a> <a href="/hebrew/4639.htm" title="4639: ū·ma·‘ă·śê·hem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A deed, work. From asah; an action; generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product or property.">Their workmanship</a> <a href="/hebrew/4758.htm" title="4758: ū·mar·’ê·hem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Sight, appearance, vision. From ra'ah; a view; also an appearance, whether a shape, or a vision.">looked</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ka·’ă·šer (Prep-k:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">like</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass."></a> <a href="/hebrew/212.htm" title="212: hā·’ō·w·p̄an (Art:: N-ms) -- A wheel. Or pophan; from an unused root meaning to revolve; a wheel.">a wheel</a> <a href="/hebrew/8432.htm" title="8432: bə·ṯō·wḵ (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Midst. From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. the centre.">within</a> <a href="/hebrew/212.htm" title="212: hā·’ō·w·p̄ān (Art:: N-ms) -- A wheel. Or pophan; from an unused root meaning to revolve; a wheel.">a wheel.</a> </span><span class="reftext">17</span>As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/4-6.htm">Revelation 4:6-8</a></span><br />And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back. / The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. / And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/7-9.htm">Daniel 7:9-10</a></span><br />As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze. / A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/1-14.htm">Revelation 1:14-16</a></span><br />The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire. / His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. / He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/10-1.htm">Revelation 10:1</a></span><br />Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/6-1.htm">Isaiah 6:1-4</a></span><br />In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. / Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. / And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/21-18.htm">Revelation 21:18-21</a></span><br />The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass. / The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, / the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/15-2.htm">Revelation 15:2</a></span><br />And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-12.htm">Revelation 19:12</a></span><br />He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/10-6.htm">Daniel 10:6</a></span><br />His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/5-6.htm">Revelation 5:6</a></span><br />Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/1-10.htm">Revelation 1:10-11</a></span><br />On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, / saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/4-2.htm">Revelation 4:2-3</a></span><br />At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it. / The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/1-20.htm">Revelation 1:20</a></span><br />This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/4-4.htm">Revelation 4:4</a></span><br />Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/1-12.htm">Revelation 1:12-13</a></span><br />Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, / and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe, with a golden sash around His chest.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">The appearance of the wheels and their work was like to the color 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.</p><p class="hdg">the colour</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm">Ezekiel 10:9</a></b></br> And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels <i>was</i> as the colour of a beryl stone.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/39-13.htm">Exodus 39:13</a></b></br> And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: <i>they were</i> inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/10-6.htm">Daniel 10:6</a></b></br> His body also <i>was</i> like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.</p><p class="hdg">a wheel</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/10-10.htm">Ezekiel 10:10</a></b></br> And <i>as for</i> their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/9-10.htm">Job 9:10</a></b></br> Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6</a></b></br> Thy righteousness <i>is</i> like the great mountains; thy judgments <i>are</i> a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/13-14.htm">Alike</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-14.htm">Appearance</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-12.htm">Appearances</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-3.htm">Appeared</a> <a href="/songs/5-14.htm">Beryl</a> <a href="/songs/5-14.htm">Chrysolite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-7.htm">Color</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-7.htm">Colour</a> <a href="/nehemiah/4-16.htm">Construction</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-15.htm">Design</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-10.htm">Form</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-15.htm">Four</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-4.htm">Gleaming</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-20.htm">Inside</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-13.htm">Likeness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-63.htm">Middle</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-13.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-7.htm">Sparkled</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-12.htm">Sparkling</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-5.htm">Structure</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-15.htm">Wheel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/47-3.htm">Wheels</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-5.htm">Within</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-2.htm">Work</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/28-21.htm">Workmanship</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/10-10.htm">Alike</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-26.htm">Appearance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-10.htm">Appearances</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-2.htm">Appeared</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm">Beryl</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm">Chrysolite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-22.htm">Color</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-22.htm">Colour</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm">Construction</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-10.htm">Design</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-22.htm">Form</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-17.htm">Four</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-27.htm">Gleaming</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-3.htm">Inside</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-22.htm">Likeness</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-27.htm">Middle</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-5.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm">Sparkled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm">Sparkling</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-2.htm">Structure</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-6.htm">Wheel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-17.htm">Wheels</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-27.htm">Within</a> <a href="/ezekiel/15-3.htm">Work</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">Workmanship</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/1-4.htm">His vision of four cherubim;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/1-15.htm">of the four wheels;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/1-26.htm">and of the glory of God.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Beryl is a precious stone, often associated with beauty and value, and its gleam suggests a radiant, heavenly quality. In biblical times, beryl was known for its clarity and brilliance, symbolizing purity and divine glory. This imagery connects to the divine nature of the vision Ezekiel is experiencing, emphasizing the majesty and holiness of God's presence. Beryl is also mentioned in the description of the New Jerusalem in <a href="/revelation/21-20.htm">Revelation 21:20</a>, linking the vision to eschatological themes.<p><b>and all four had the same likeness</b><br>The uniformity of the wheels signifies order and harmony in God's creation. This sameness reflects the consistency and unity of God's will and purpose. In the context of Ezekiel's vision, it suggests that God's actions and judgments are consistent and just. The number four often represents universality in the Bible, as seen in the four corners of the earth or the four winds, indicating that God's sovereignty extends over all creation.<p><b>Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel</b><br>This complex design suggests a multidimensional aspect of God's providence and omnipresence. The "wheel within a wheel" imagery can be seen as a symbol of the interconnectedness of God's plans and the intricate nature of His workings in the world. It may also represent the idea of movement and direction, as these wheels are part of the living creatures that move in any direction without turning. This reflects the divine ability to operate beyond human limitations and understanding. The concept of a wheel within a wheel can also be seen as a type of Christ, who embodies both the divine and human nature, perfectly integrated and functioning in harmony.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet and priest during the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel is the author of the book and the recipient of the visions described.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a></b><br>The place of exile for the Israelites, where Ezekiel received his visions.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_vision_of_the_wheels.htm">The Vision of the Wheels</a></b><br>Part of Ezekiel's inaugural vision, which includes the appearance of four living creatures and wheels, symbolizing God's divine presence and mobility.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_omnipresence.htm">God's Sovereignty and Omnipresence</a></b><br>The wheels within wheels symbolize God's ability to move and act anywhere, emphasizing His control over all creation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_majesty_of_god's_creation.htm">The Majesty of God's Creation</a></b><br>The gleam of beryl and the intricate design of the wheels reflect the beauty and complexity of God's creation, inviting us to worship Him for His craftsmanship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_order_and_purpose.htm">Divine Order and Purpose</a></b><br>The uniformity and precision of the wheels suggest that God's plans are orderly and purposeful, encouraging believers to trust in His divine plan.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_perception.htm">Spiritual Perception</a></b><br>Ezekiel's vision challenges us to seek spiritual insight and understanding, recognizing that God's ways are higher than our ways.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_exile.htm">Faith in Exile</a></b><br>Just as Ezekiel received this vision during a time of exile, believers are reminded that God is present and active even in difficult circumstances.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_ezekiel's_wheels.htm">What are Ezekiel's Wheels in biblical context?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_the_ophanim_in_the_bible.htm">What are the ophanim in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_did_doeg_betray_david_to_king_saul.htm">What are the ophanim in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_ezekiel_1_vision_evidence-based_or_myth.htm">Is there archaeological or historical evidence supporting Ezekiel’s vivid vision in Ezekiel 1, or does it seem purely mythological?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(16) <span class= "bld">Their work was like unto the colour of a beryl.</span>--"Work" is used in the sense of workmanship or construction; and "beryl" here, and in <a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm" title="And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a beryl stone.">Ezekiel 10:9</a>, is not the precious stone of a green colour which we know by that name, but the "chrysolite" of the ancients, the modern topaz, having the lustre of gold, and in harmony with the frequent mention throughout the vision of fire and brilliant light.<p><span class= "bld">A wheel in the middle of a wheel.</span>--We are to conceive of the wheels as double, and one part at right angles to the other, like the equator and a meridian circle upon the globe, so that they could go, without being turned, equally well in any direction. Of course, such a wheel would be impossible of mechanical construction; it is only seen in vision and as a symbol; it was never intended to be actually made.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Like unto the colour of a beryl.</span> The Hebrew for "beryl" (<span class="accented">tarshish</span>) suggests that the stone was called, like the turquoise, from the region which produced it. Here and in <a href="/daniel/10-6.htm">Daniel 10:6</a> the LXX. leaves it untranslated. In <a href="/exodus/28-20.htm">Exodus 28:20</a> we find <span class="greek">χρυσόλιθος</span>; in <a href="/ezekiel/10-9.htm">Ezekiel 10:9</a> and Ezekiel 28:13 <span class="greek">ἄνθραξ</span>, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> carbuncle. It is obvious, from this variety of renderings, that the stone was not easily identified. Probably it was of a red or golden color, suggesting the thought of fire rather than the pale green of the aquamarine or beryl (see especially <a href="/daniel/10-6.htm">Daniel 10:6</a>). <span class="cmt_word">They four had one likeness,</span> etc. A closer gaze led the prophet to see that there was a plurality in the unity. For the one "wheel" we have four; perhaps, as some have thought, two wheels intersecting at right angles, perhaps, one, probably seen behind, perhaps also below, each of the living creatures. They are not said actually to rest upon it, and the word "chariot" is not used as it is in <a href="/1_chronicles/28-18.htm">1 Chronicles 28:18</a>. They would seem rather to have hovered over the wheels, moving simultaneously and in full accord with them. The "wheels" obviously represent the forces and laws that sustain the manifold forms of life represented by the "living creatures" and the "Spirit." In each case the number four is, as elsewhere, the symbol of completeness. <span class="cmt_word">A wheel in the midst of</span> (<span class="accented">within</span>, Revised Version) <span class="cmt_word">a wheel;</span> <span class="accented">i.e.</span> with an inner and outer circumference, the space between the two forming the "ring" or felloe of ver. 18. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The workmanship</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ma·‘ă·śê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4639.htm">Strong's 4639: </a> </span><span class="str2">An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the wheels</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאוֹפַנִּ֤ים</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ō·w·p̄an·nîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_212.htm">Strong's 212: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wheel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">looked like</span><br /><span class="heb">מַרְאֵ֨ה</span> <span class="translit">(mar·’êh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4758.htm">Strong's 4758: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sight, appearance, vision</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the gleam</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּעֵ֣ין</span> <span class="translit">(kə·‘ên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - common singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> </span><span class="str2">An eye, a fountain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of beryl,</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ</span> <span class="translit">(tar·šîš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8658.htm">Strong's 8658: </a> </span><span class="str2">(a precious stone) perhaps yellow jasper</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and all four</span><br /><span class="heb">לְאַרְבַּעְתָּ֑ן</span> <span class="translit">(lə·’ar·ba‘·tān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Number - masculine singular construct | third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_702.htm">Strong's 702: </a> </span><span class="str2">Four</span><br /><br /><span class="word">had the same</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶחָ֖ד</span> <span class="translit">(’e·ḥāḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> </span><span class="str2">United, one, first</span><br /><br /><span class="word">likeness.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּדְמ֥וּת</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḏə·mūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1823.htm">Strong's 1823: </a> </span><span class="str2">Resemblance, model, shape, like</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Their workmanship</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמַ֣עֲשֵׂיהֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ma·‘ă·śê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4639.htm">Strong's 4639: </a> </span><span class="str2">An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property</span><br /><br /><span class="word">looked</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמַרְאֵיהֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mar·’ê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4758.htm">Strong's 4758: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sight, appearance, vision</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר</span> <span class="translit">(ka·’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a wheel</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאוֹפַ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ō·w·p̄an)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_212.htm">Strong's 212: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wheel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">within</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּת֥וֹךְ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ṯō·wḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8432.htm">Strong's 8432: </a> </span><span class="str2">A bisection, the centre</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a wheel.</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאוֹפָֽן׃</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ō·w·p̄ān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_212.htm">Strong's 212: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wheel</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/1-16.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their (Ezek. 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