Ezekiel 10:13

Bishop's Bible

And to the wheeles, he cryed to them in my hearyng, O wheele,

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
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.

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].

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."

Amplified Bible
Regarding the wheels [attached to them], I heard them called, "the whirling (rolling, revolving) wheels."

American Standard Version
As for the wheels, they 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."

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.

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.

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!

New Century Version
I heard the wheels being called "whirling wheels."

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.

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."

New American Standard Bible
The wheels were called, as I heard, the whirling wheels.

Webster's Bible Translation
As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he clepide tho wheelis volible, ether able to go al aboute, in myn heryng.

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

World English Bible
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

Revised Standard Version
As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the whirling wheels.

Update Bible 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.

King James Version
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I herde him call ye wheles, Galgal (that is) a rounde boull.

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.

Contextual Overview

⁸ And vnder the wynges of the Cherubims there appeared the likenesse of a mans hande. ⁹ I loked also, and behold foure wheeles beside the Cherubims, one wheele by one Cherub, and another by another Cherub, and the wheeles were to loke vpon after the fashion of the precious stone Tharsis. ¹⁰ As touchyng their appearaunce (they were all foure of one fashion) as yf one wheele had ben in another. ¹¹ When they went foorth, they went vpon their foure sides, not turnyng backe in their goyng: for which way the [head of the] first loked, after it they went, so that they turned not backe in their goyng. ¹² And their whole bodyes, their backes, their handes, and wynges, yea and the wheeles also were full of eyes rounde about the foure wheeles. ¹³ And to the wheeles, he cryed to them in my hearyng, O wheele, ¹⁴ Euery one of them had foure faces, so that the face of the first was the face of a Cherub, and the face of the seconde the face of a man, and of the thirde the face of a lion, and of the fourth the face of an egle. ¹⁵ And the Cherubims were lyfted vp: This is the beast that I sawe at the water of Chebar. ¹⁶ Nowe when the Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lyft vp their wynges to mount vp from the earth, the same wheeles also turned not from besides them. ¹⁷ Shortly when they stoode, these stoode also, and when they were lifted vp, the wheeles lift vp them selues also with them: for the spirite of the beast was in the wheeles.

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
Out of that lande came Assur, and builded Niniue, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah,

Genesis 10:12
Resen also betweene Niniue & Chalah, and it is a great citie.

Jeremiah 46:9
Get you vp ye horses, roule foorth ye charets, come foorth worthyes, ye Ethiopians, ye Libyans with your bucklers, ye Lydians with your bowes.

Ezekiel 30:5
Yea Ethiopia, Lybia, & Lydia, all their common people, and Chub, and all that be confederate vnto them, shal fall with them thorowe the sworde.

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;

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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."