Lexicon
אוֹפָן
o.phan
H0212
H:N-M Hebrew

wheel

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Occurrences
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Books
Hebrew
Language

o.phan denotes a wheel, whether on equipment and vehicles or beside the living creatures in Ezekiel’s visions.

The term denotes a wheel across ordinary crafted and transport settings and, most prominently, the wheels described beside living creatures in Ezekiel’s visions. The supplied verses also place it on bronze stands, chariots, a cart, and in a proverb’s wheel image.

Senses in use

  1. Wheel in crafted, transport, and visionary settings · dominant

    Singular and plural noun forms refer to one wheel or multiple wheels: in Ezekiel 1:15 the APB renders one wheel on the ground beside each living creature, while Ezekiel 1:16 describes a wheel within a wheel. In 1 Kings 7:32 the wheels are beneath the panels of a stand; Exodus 14:25 places them on chariots, and Isaiah 28:27 refers to a cart wheel. Ezekiel 10:16 further depicts the plural wheels moving beside the cherubim.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the term as “wheel” or “wheels,” including wheels of stands and chariots and those beside the living creatures. Its wording in individual clauses does not by itself establish a separate nuance for each form.

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