Bible Strands
Ezekiel 1:11
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel records a vision of four living creatures, detailing their physical arrangement immediately after describing their composite faces.
The words — פְּרֻד֖וֹת (pe.ru.Dot) = [were] spread out and חֹבְר֣וֹת (choe.Rot) = [were] touching.
The thread — The wing arrangement reappears in Ezekiel 1:23, while Isaiah 6:2 describes a similar pattern of angelic wings used for posture and concealment.
Why it lands — The text states the wings are positioned for both connection and concealment, requiring the reader to observe the precise, orderly arrangement of the vision rather than speculate beyond the physical description.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 6:2 Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
- Ezekiel 1:23 And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.
- Ezekiel 10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.
- Ezekiel 10:19 As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.