Ezekiel 1:6
New International Version
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

New Living Translation
except that each had four faces and four wings.

English Standard Version
but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

Berean Standard Bible
but each had four faces and four wings.

King James Bible
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

New King James Version
Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

New American Standard Bible
Each of them had four faces and four wings.

NASB 1995
Each of them had four faces and four wings.

NASB 1977
Each of them had four faces and four wings.

Legacy Standard Bible
And each of them had four faces and four wings.

Amplified Bible
Each one had four faces and four wings.

Christian Standard Bible
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

American Standard Version
and every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And each had four faces and four wings

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

Contemporary English Version
except that each one had four faces and four wings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.

English Revised Version
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Good News Translation
but each of them had four faces and four wings.

International Standard Version
except that they each had four faces, four pairs of wings,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

Literal Standard Version
and each had four faces and each of them had four wings,

Majority Standard Bible
but each had four faces and four wings.

New American Bible
They were in human form, but each had four faces and four wings,

NET Bible
but each had four faces and four wings.

New Revised Standard Version
Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

New Heart English Bible
And each one had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

Webster's Bible Translation
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

World English Bible
Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

Young's Literal Translation
and four faces are to each, and four wings are to each of them,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Four Living Creatures
5and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form, 6but each had four faces and four wings. 7Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 1:10
The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 1:23
And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.

Ezekiel 10:14
Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

Ezekiel 10:21
Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.


Treasury of Scripture

And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

And every one had four faces.

Ezekiel 1:10,15
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle…

Ezekiel 10:10,14,21,22
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel…

Revelation 4:7,8
And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle…

every one had four wings

Ezekiel 1:8-11
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings…

Exodus 25:20
And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

1 Kings 6:24-27
And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits…

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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.














(6) Four faces.--The cherubim, being merely symbolical figures, are variously represented. Those placed in the Tabernacle and in the Temple of Solomon appear to have had only a single face; those described in Ezekiel's vision of the Temple (Ezekiel 41:18-19) had two; the four living creatures of Revelation 4:7 were each different from the other: one like a man, one like a lion, one like an ox, and one like an eagle, and these four are combined here in each one of the cherubim (Ezekiel 1:10). Man is the head of the whole animal creation, the lion of wild beasts, the ox of the domestic animals, and the eagle of the birds.

Four wings.--In Revelation 4:8, six wings are mentioned, as also with the seraphim of Isaiah 6:2. The cherubim in Solomon's Temple had two (1Kings 6:27). In Ezekiel 10:21, as here, they have four. The number is plainly not important, though doubtless assigned to them with reference to the number of creatures, and of their faces, and of the wheels; but that they should have more than the normal number of two is here appropriate, partly to concur with the other indications of the fulness of their life and activity, and partly because (Ezekiel 1:11) two of them were used to express their reverence, as were four of those of the seraphim in Isaiah. . . .

Verse 6. - We note the points of contrast with other like visions.

(1) In Isaiah 6:2 each seraph has six wings, as each "living creature" has in Revelation 4:8.

(2) In Revelation 4:7 the four heads are distributed, one to each of the "living creatures," while here each has four faces, and forms, as it were, a Janus quadrifrons. The wings are described more minutely in ver. 11.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but each
לְאֶחָ֑ת (lə·’e·ḥāṯ)
Preposition-l | Number - feminine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

had four
וְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה (wə·’ar·bā·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 702: Four

faces
פָנִ֖ים (p̄ā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

and four
וְאַרְבַּ֥ע (wə·’ar·ba‘)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular
Strong's 702: Four

wings.
כְּנָפַ֖יִם (kə·nā·p̄a·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle


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