Ezekiel 1:18
New International Version
Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

New Living Translation
The rims of the four wheels were tall and frightening, and they were covered with eyes all around.

English Standard Version
And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around.

Berean Standard Bible
Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

King James Bible
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

New King James Version
As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.

New American Standard Bible
As for their rims, they were high and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were covered with eyes all around.

NASB 1995
As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.

NASB 1977
As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.

Legacy Standard Bible
And as for their rims, they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes all around.

Amplified Bible
Regarding their rims: they were so high that they were awesome and dreadful, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes all around.

Christian Standard Bible
Their four rims were tall and awe-inspiring, completely covered with eyes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Their rims were large and frightening. Each of their four rims were full of eyes all around.

American Standard Version
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And their backs were high and they could see, and the backs of the four of them were full of eyes when they were going around

Brenton Septuagint Translation
neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.

Contemporary English Version
The rims of the wheels were large and frightening, and they had eyes all the way around them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.

English Revised Version
As for their rings, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The rims of the wheels were large and frightening. They were covered with eyes.

Good News Translation
The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.

International Standard Version
Their wheel rims were ornate and terrifying. They were full of eyes that surrounded the four of them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
As for their rings, they were high and they were dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.

Literal Standard Version
As for their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings, of the four of them, [are] full of eyes around them.

Majority Standard Bible
Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

New American Bible
The four of them had rims, high and fearsome—eyes filled the four rims all around.

NET Bible
Their rims were high and awesome, and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.

New Revised Standard Version
Their rims were tall and awesome, for the rims of all four were full of eyes all around.

New Heart English Bible
As for their rims, they were high and awesome; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

Webster's Bible Translation
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes around them four.

World English Bible
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

Young's Literal Translation
As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings are full of eyes round about them four.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Four Wheels
17As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved. 18Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. 19So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.…

Cross References
Revelation 4:6
And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.

Revelation 4:8
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"

Ezekiel 10:12
Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.


Treasury of Scripture

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

they were so

Job 37:22-24
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty…

Psalm 77:16-19
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled…

Psalm 97:2-5
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne…

rings.

Ezekiel 10:12
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Zechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

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Ezekiel 1
1. The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar.
4. His vision of four cherubim;
15. of the four wheels;
26. and of the glory of God.














(18) Their rings.--The same word is used twice in this verse, and means what we call the felloes. "They were both high and terrible," i.e., they had both these characteristics, but not, as seems to be implied in our translation, that one was the cause of the other. The height might be inferred from the fact that the wheel was "upon the earth," and yet was "by the living creatures" (Ezekiel 1:15) who were seen in the cloud (Ezekiel 1:5). The terribleness was in keeping with all other parts of the vision, and its reason is explained in the circumstances which follow.

Full of eyes.--In Ezekiel 10:12 it is said of the living creatures, "their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes round about." It was the same vision in either case (Ezekiel 10:20-22), only in the effort to describe it, which the prophet evidently feels it impossible to do adequately, he mentions now one particular and now another. In the corresponding vision in the Apocalypse the four living creatures are represented as "full of eyes within" (Revelation 4:8). In both places alike the symbolism sets forth God's perfect knowledge of all His works: here as showing the absolute wisdom of all His doings (comp. 2Chronicles 16:9), there as resulting in perfect and harmonious praise from all His works. The Hebrew seers ever looked through all secondary causes directly to the ultimate force which originates and controls all nature, and which they represent as intelligent and self-conscious. To do this the more effectively, they often use in their visions such concrete imagery as this before us. . . .

Verse 18. - As for their rings, etc. The "rings" or "felloes" of the wheels impressed the prophet's mind with a sense of awe, partly from their size, partly from their being "full of eyes." These were obviously, as again in Ezekiel 10:12, and in the analogues of the "stone with seven eyes" in Zechariah 3:9; Zechariah 4:10, and the "four beasts [i.e. 'living creatures'] full of eyes," in Revelation 4:6, symbols of the omniscience of God working through the forces of nature and of history. These were not, as men have sometimes thought, blind forces, but were guided as by a supreme insight (comp. 2 Chronicles 16:9).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Their rims
וְגַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ן (wə·ḡab·bê·hen)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

were high
וְגֹ֥בַהּ (wə·ḡō·ḇah)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1363: Elation, grandeur, arrogance

and awesome,
וְיִרְאָ֣ה (wə·yir·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3374: Fear, reverence

and all four
לְאַרְבַּעְתָּֽן׃ (lə·’ar·ba‘·tān)
Preposition-l | Number - masculine singular construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 702: Four

rims
וְגַבֹּתָ֗ם (wə·ḡab·bō·ṯām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

were full of
מְלֵאֹ֥ת (mə·lê·’ōṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural construct
Strong's 4392: Full, filling, fulness, fully

eyes
עֵינַ֛יִם (‘ê·na·yim)
Noun - cd
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

all around.
סָבִ֖יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around


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