Ezekiel 1:16 “The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all…”

Ezekiel 1:16

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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 in the middle of a wheel.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The facion of the wheeles and their worke was like vnto a chrysolite: and they foure had one forme, and their facion, and their worke was as one wheele in another wheele.

Darby Translation

The 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.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

The 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.

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Cross references

“the colour”

Daniel 10:6 Exodus 39:13 Ezekiel 10:9

Daniel 10:6 · BSB

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.

Exodus 39:13 · BSB

and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.

Ezekiel 10:9 · BSB

Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.

“a wheel”

Job 9:10 Psalm 36:6 Psalm 40:5 Romans 11:33 Ephesians 3:10 Ezekiel 10:10

Job 9:10 · BSB

He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

Psalm 36:6 · BSB

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Psalm 40:5 · BSB

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

Romans 11:33 · BSB

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Ephesians 3:10 · BSB

His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

Ezekiel 10:10 · BSB

As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

17As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

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