Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 1823 [e] וּדְמ֞וּת ū-ḏə-mūṯ And the likeness [was] Conj-w | N-fs 5921 [e] עַל־ ‘al- above Prep 7218 [e] רָאשֵׁ֤י rā-šê the heads N-mpc 2416 [e] הַחַיָּה֙ ha-ḥay-yāh of the living creatures Art | N-fs 7549 [e] רָקִ֔יעַ rā-qî-a‘, of the firmament N-ms 5869 [e] כְּעֵ֖ין kə-‘ên like the color Prep-k | N-csc 7140 [e] הַקֶּ֣רַח haq-qe-raḥ of crystal Art | N-ms 3372 [e] הַנּוֹרָ֑א han-nō-w-rā; an awesome Art | V-Nifal-Prtcpl-ms 5186 [e] נָט֥וּי nā-ṭui stretched out V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-ms 5921 [e] עַל־ ‘al- over Prep 7218 [e] רָאשֵׁיהֶ֖ם rā-šê-hem their heads N-mpc | 3mp 4605 [e] מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ mil-mā-‘ə-lāh. above Prep-m, Prep-l | Adv | 3fs

New American Standard Bible
Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The shape of an expanse, with a gleam like awe-inspiring crystal, was spread out over the heads of the living creatures.

the likeness

Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness …

Ezekiel 10:1 Then I looked, and, behold…

Exodus 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it …

Job 37:22 Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

Revelation 4:3,6 And he that sat was to look on like a jasper and a sardine stone: …

Revelation 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like to a stone most precious, …

crystal
The Hebrew {kerach}, which generally denotes {ice}, doubtless here signifies crystal, [], from [], cold, ice, and [], to concrete,) as it is rendered by the LXX and Vulgate. It is a very large class of silicious minerals, hard, pellucid, naturally colourless, of regularly angular figures, and of simple plates; not flexible, not elastic, but giving fire with steel; not fermenting by acid menstura, but calcinable in a strong fire. There are three orders of pure crystal: the first is perfect columnar crystals, with double pyramids, of eighteen planes, in an hexangular pyramid at each end; the second is that of perfect crystals, with single pyramids, of ten or twelve planes, in an hexangular or pentangular column. [Terrible crystal] seems to denote that which was well cut and polished, vividly refracting the rays of light.

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