Yehezkiel 1:16

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka rupa jentera dan perbuatannya seperti warna permata firuzah, dan rupanya sama pada keempat tepinya, dan lagi rupanya dan perbuatannya seperti kalau ada jentera lagi pada sama tengah jentera itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Rupa roda-roda itu seperti kilauan permata pirus dan keempatnya adalah serupa; buatannya seolah-olah roda yang satu di tengah-tengah yang lain.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Rupa roda-roda itu seperti kilauan permata pirus dan keempatnya adalah serupa; buatannya seolah-olah roda yang satu di tengah-tengah yang lain.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the colour: Ezekiel 10:9, Exodus 39:13, Daniel 10:6

a wheel: Ezekiel 10:10, Job 9:10, Psalms 36:6, Psalms 40:5, Romans 11:33, Ephesians 3:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:20 - a beryl 1 Kings 7:33 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The appearance of the wheels, and their work, [was] like unto the colour of a beryl,.... Which is a precious stone; see

Exodus 28:20; the Syriac version renders it a chrysolite; the Arabic, a jasper; and so may denote the preciousness, glory, and excellency of the churches, and the true members of them, which are as jewels and pearls of great price in the esteem of Christ; and the colour of this stone being a sea green, from whence it has here the name of "tarshish", a word sometimes used for the sea, may signify the fluctuating and uncertain state of the churches in this world, and in their present circumstances:

and they four had one likeness: this shows that there were four wheels, and that they were all alike, as the true churches of Christ are; they are alike gathered out of the world, and consist of the same sort of persons, true believers in Christ; they profess the same faith; they have the same officers and ordinances; keep up the same discipline, and are under the same form of government, and have all the same power and authority:

and their appearance and work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel; not as if one wheel was comprehended and included in another; for then one must be lesser than another; whereas all the wheels were alike, as for form, so for size; but the work or make of them was in a transverse way, or cross way; just as two hoops may be put together cross ways, and so form four semicircles, and these a globe or sphere; hence this wheel is called גלגל, "an orb" or "globe", in

Ezekiel 10:13; and it was on those four semicircles that the four faces of the ox, the man, the lion, and eagle, were engraved; the reason of their being wrought in this form was, for the motion of them; as follows: