'Four' in the Bible
Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.
Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle.
Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.
The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another.
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.
As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.
“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.
Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone.
As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
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.
Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.
And each one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.
For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”’”
Four tables were on each side next to the gate; or, eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices.
For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.
He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the profane.
From the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width one cubit.
The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.
Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall face the east.”
You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the border round about; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
Then he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a small court.
In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size.
There was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.