Ezekiel 1:8
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
כָּנָף
kânâph
an edge or extremity; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bedclothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinna...
יְרֵכָה
yᵉrêkâh
properly, the flank; but used only figuratively, the rear or recess
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
כָּנָף
kânâph
an edge or extremity; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bedclothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinna...
Key Terms in This Verse
יְרֵכָה yᵉrêkâh
properly, the flank; but used only figuratively, the rear or recess
Study H3411 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →כָּנָף kânâph
an edge or extremity; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bedclothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinnacle
Study H3671 →כָּנָף kânâph
an edge or extremity; specifically (of a bird or army) a wing, (of a garment or bedclothing) a flap, (of the earth) a quarter, (of a building) a pinnacle
Study H3671 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the ci...
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door o...
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