The Four Living Creatures
Ezekiel 1:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.
- KJV
- And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.straight…: Heb. a straight foot
- WEB
- Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
- ASV
- And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.
- LSV
- and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf’s foot, and they are sparkling as the color of bright bronze;
- YLT
- and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf's foot, and they are sparkling as the colour of bright brass;
- DBY
- And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled as the look of burnished brass.
- DRC
- Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of glowing brass.
- GNV
- And their feete were streight feete, and the sole of their feete was like the sole of a calues foote, and they sparkled like the appearance of bright brasse.
- JPS
- And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
- LXXE
- And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and there were sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם רֶ֣גֶל יְשָׁרָ֑ה וְכַ֣ף רַגְלֵיהֶ֗ם כְּכַף֙ רֶ֣גֶל עֵ֔גֶל וְנֹ֣צְצִ֔ים כְּעֵ֖ין נְחֹ֥שֶׁת קָלָֽל׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ τὰ σκέλη αὐτῶν ὀρθὰ, καὶ πτερωτοὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτῶν, καὶ σπινθῆρες, ὡς ἐξαστράπτων χαλκός· καὶ ἐλαφραὶ αἱ πτέρυγες αὐτῶν.
Who and where
◆ Prophecies of Ezekiel
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
CherubimLiving CreatureCalf, TheLuke, the EvangelistBrassVisionsBrass, or CopperCherubim (1)Prophecy; ProphetsAngel (a Spirit)
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Revelation 1:15His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
- Daniel 10:6His 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.
- Psalms 104:4He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
- Ezekiel 1:13In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
- Leviticus 11:3You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.
- Leviticus 11:47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
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