Parallel Verses

Amplified

When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.

New American Standard Bible

When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction, without pivoting as they went.

International Standard Version

Whenever they moved, they proceeded without turning around as they moved, but they followed in the direction where their head was facing, without looking around as they moved.

A Conservative Version

When they went, they went in their four directions. They did not turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They did not turn as they went.

American Standard Version

When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

Bible in Basic English

When they were moving, they went on their four sides without turning; they went after the head in the direction in which it was looking; they went without turning.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

In their going, upon their four sides they will go; they will not turn in their going, for to the place where the head will turn after it will they go; they will not turn in their going.

King James 2000

When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{When they went} to the four of their directions [that] they went, they did not change direction {when they went}, for the place [to] which the head turned, they went behind him; they did not change direction at their going.

Modern King James verseion

When they went, they went on their four sides. They did not turn as they went, for to the place where the head faces, after it they went. They did not turn as they went.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When they went forth, they went all four together, not turning about in their going. But where the first went, thither went they after also, so that they turned not about in their going.

NET Bible

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow without turning as they moved,

New Heart English Bible

When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

The Emphasized Bible

When they went, upon their four sides, they went, they turned not when they went, for to the place whithersoever the heads turned, after it, they went, they turned not when they went.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

Youngs Literal Translation

In their going, on their four sides they go; they turn not round in their going, for to the place whither the head turneth, after it they go, they turn not round in their going.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

ארבּעה ארבּע 
'arba` 
Usage: 318

רבע 
Reba` 
Usage: 7

not as they went
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

but to the place
מקמה מקומה מקם מקום 
Maqowm 
Usage: 401

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

פּנה 
Panah 
Usage: 134

ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

סבב 
Cabab 
Usage: 157

References

Easton

Watsons

Context Readings

God's Presence Leaves The Temple

10 As for their appearance, all four looked alike, as if one wheel were within another wheel. 11 When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went. 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.

Cross References

Ezekiel 1:17

Whenever they moved, they went in any [one] of their four directions without turning as they moved.

Ezekiel 10:22

As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the River Chebar. Each one went straight forward.

Ezekiel 1:20

Wherever the spirit went, the beings went in that direction. And the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit or life of the living beings was in the wheels.

Matthew 8:8-10

But the centurion replied to Him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.

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