Parallel Verses

Amplified

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.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Their rims were large and frightening. Each of their four rims were full of eyes all around.

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

As for their rims, they were high and fearful. And those four had their rims full of eyes round about.

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

And I saw that they had edges, and their edges, even of the four, were full of eyes round about.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And their backs, and the height to them, and terror to them; and their backs full of eyes round about to them four.

King James 2000

As for their rims, they were so high that they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, round about the four of them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And their rims {were high and awesome}, and {all four of} their rims [were] full of eyes [all] around.

Modern King James verseion

And their rims: they were even high; they were even awesome. And their rims were full of eyes all around the four of them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They were large, great and horrible to look upon. Their bodies were full of eyes round about them all four. When the beasts went, the wheels went also with them:

NET Bible

Their rims were high and awesome, and the rims of all four wheels 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.

The Emphasized Bible

As for their rings, they were so high that they were terrible, -and their rings full of eyes round about, had they four.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings are full of eyes round about them four.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּבהּ 
Gobahh 
Usage: 17

יראה 
Yir'ah 
Usage: 45

מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 63

of eyes
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

סביבה סביב 
Cabiyb 
Usage: 334

References

Smith

Context Readings

Date Of Vision Of Living Creatures And Glory Of The Throne Of Yahweh

17 Whenever they moved, they went in any [one] of their four directions without turning as they moved. 18 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. 19 Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them; and when the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

Cross References

Ezekiel 10:12

Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around, even the wheels belonging to all four of them.

Revelation 4:6

and in front of the throne there was something like a sea or large expanse of glass, like [the clearest] crystal. In the center and around the throne were four living creatures who were full of eyes in front and behind [seeing everything and knowing everything that is around them].

Revelation 4:8

And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes all over and within [underneath their wings]; and day and night they never stop saying,

Holy, holy, holy [is the] Lord God, the Almighty [the Omnipotent, the Ruler of all], who was and who is and who is to come [the unchanging, eternal God].”

Job 37:22-24


“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].

Psalm 77:16-19


The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

Psalm 97:2-5


Clouds and thick darkness surround Him [as at Sinai];
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Proverbs 15:3


The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
Watching the evil and the good [in all their endeavors].

Isaiah 55:9


“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Zechariah 4:10

Who [with reason] despises the day of small things (beginnings)? For these seven [eyes] shall rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord which roam throughout the earth.”

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