KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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To get what Ezekiel 1:21 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “When those went,” | בְּלֶכְתָּ֣ם | To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) | those |
| “these” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “went;” | יֵלֵ֔כוּ | To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) | went |
| “and when those stood,” | וּבְעָמְדָ֖ם | To stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive) | those stood |
| “these” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “stood;” | יַֽעֲמֹ֑דוּ | To stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive) | stood |
| “and when those were lifted up” | וּֽבְהִנָּשְׂאָ֞ם | To lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative | those lifted up |
| “from” | מֵעַ֣ל | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | from |
| “the earth,” | הָאָ֗רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | earth |
| “the wheels” | הָאֽוֹפַנִּים֙ | A wheel | wheels |
| “were lifted up” | יִנָּשְׂא֤וּ | To lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative | lifted up |
| “over against” | לְעֻמָּתָ֔ם | Conjunction, i.e., society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with | against |
| “them: for” | כִּ֛י | (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed | them for |
| “the spirit” | ר֥וּחַ | Wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions) | spirit |
| “of the living creature” | הַחַיָּ֖ה | Alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively | living creature |
| “was” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “in the wheels.” | בָּאוֹפַנִּֽים׃ | A wheel | wheels |
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19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
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