The Four Living Creatures
Ezekiel 1:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.
- KJV
- Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.stretched…: or, divided above
- WEB
- Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
- ASV
- And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
- LSV
- And their faces and their wings dividing from above, of each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
- YLT
- And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
- DBY
- And their faces and their wings were parted above; two [wings] of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
- DRC
- And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:
- GNV
- Thus were their faces: but their wings were spred out aboue: two wings of euery one were ioined one to another, and two couered their bodies.
- JPS
- Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
- LXXE
- And the four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וּפְנֵיהֶ֕ם וְכַנְפֵיהֶ֥ם פְּרֻד֖וֹת מִלְמָ֑עְלָה לְאִ֗ישׁ שְׁ֚תַּיִם חֹבְר֣וֹת אִ֔ישׁ וּשְׁתַּ֣יִם מְכַסּ֔וֹת אֵ֖ת גְּוִיֹתֵיהֶֽנָה׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ αἱ πτέρυγες αὐτῶν ἐκτεταμέναι ἄνωθεν τοῖς τέσσαρσιν, ἑκατέρῳ δύο συνεζευγμέναι πρὸς ἀλλήλας, καὶ δύο ἐπεκάλυπτον ἐπάνω τοῦ σώματος αὐτῶν.
Who and where
◆ Prophecies of Ezekiel
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
CherubimLiving CreatureLuke, the EvangelistVisionsBodyProphecy; ProphetsCherubim (1)Angel (a Spirit)
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 6:2Above 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.
- Ezekiel 1:23And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.
- Ezekiel 10:16When 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.
- Ezekiel 10:19As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God…
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