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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Ezekiel 10:21

Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Throne;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Living Creatures;   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;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Each had four faces and each had four wings, with what looked something like human hands under their wings.
Hebrew Names Version
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
King James Version
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
English Standard Version
Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands.
New American Standard Bible
Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.
New Century Version
Each one had four faces and four wings, and under their wings were things that looked like human hands.
Amplified Bible
Each one had four faces and each one had four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.
World English Bible
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of mans hands was vnder their wings.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.
Legacy Standard Bible
Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the likeness of human hands.
Contemporary English Version
They had four wings with hands beneath them, and they had the same four faces as those near the River. Each creature moved straight ahead without turning.
Complete Jewish Bible
Each of the four had four faces, and each had four wings, and what looked like a man's hands was under their wings.
Darby Translation
Each one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Easy-to-Read Version
Each living being had four faces, four wings, and something that looked like human arms under their wings.
George Lamsa Translation
Each one had four faces, and each one four wings; and the likeness of a mans hand was under their wings.
Good News Translation
Each of them had four faces, four wings, and what looked like a human hand under each wing.
Lexham English Bible
Each one had four faces, and there were four wings for each, and the likeness of human hands was under their wings.
Literal Translation
Four, even four faces are to each, and four wings to each. And the form of a man's hands was under their wings.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euery one had foure faces, & euery one foure wynges, & vnder their winges, as it were mes hondes.
American Standard Version
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Bible in Basic English
Every one had four faces and every one had four wings; and hands like a man's hands were under their wings.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
King James Version (1611)
Euery one had foure faces a piece, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of the handes of a man was vnder their wings.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wynges, and vnder their wynges the likenesse of mens handes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men’s hands.
English Revised Version
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
foure faces weren to oon, and foure wyngys weren to oon; and the licnesse of the hond of a man was vndur the wyngis of tho.
Update Bible Version
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of man was under their wings.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every one had four faces each, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings.
New English Translation
Each had four faces; each had four wings and the form of human hands under the wings.
New King James Version
Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
New Living Translation
for each had four faces and four wings and what looked like human hands under their wings.
New Life Bible
Each one had four faces and four wings, and under their wings were what looked like human hands.
New Revised Standard
Each had four faces, each four wings, and underneath their wings something like human hands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Four faces severally, had each one, and four wings, had each one, - and the likeness of the hands of a man, was under their wings.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and the likeness of a man’s hand was under their wings.
Revised Standard Version
Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the semblance of human hands.
Young's Literal Translation
Four faces [are] to each, and four wings to each, and the likeness of the hands of man [is] under their wings.

Contextual Overview

8(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.) 9Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone. 10As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel. 11When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction, without turning as they went. 12Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels. 13I heard the wheels being called "the whirling wheels." 14Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle. 15Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar. 16When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side. 17When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had four: Ezekiel 10:14, Ezekiel 1:8-10, Ezekiel 41:18, Ezekiel 41:19, Revelation 4:7

and the: Ezekiel 10:8

Reciprocal: Isaiah 6:2 - wings Ezekiel 1:6 - And every one had four faces Revelation 4:8 - six

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:26
And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Numbers 24:24
Ships will come from the coast of Kittim; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every one had four faces apiece,.... Every one of the four living creatures, or cherubim, had four faces; which were the face of a man, of a lion, of an ox, and of an eagle, Ezekiel 1:10;

and everyone four wings: the Septuagint version reads eight wings; and the Syriac version "six"; so many in all indeed they had,

Ezekiel 1:10- :;

and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings;

Ezekiel 1:10- :.


 
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