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20 Bible Verses About Angels’ Appearance in Ezekiel: The Living Creatures and the Cherubim

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Summary

  • Ezekiel 1 calls the beings under God’s throne “living creatures”, and Ezekiel 10:20 identifies them as cherubim; neither chapter calls them angels.
  • Each has a human likeness, four faces, four wings, straight legs with feet like a calf’s, and human hands under the wings (Ezekiel 1:5-10).
  • Ezekiel 1:10 lists the faces as human, lion, ox and eagle; Ezekiel 10:14 has “the face of the cherub” where the ox had been.
  • Beside each creature is a wheel like beryl, “a wheel within a wheel”, full of eyes, and in Ezekiel 10:13 the wheels are named galgal, “the whirling wheels.”
  • The expanse and the throne are above the creatures’ heads, and on the throne Ezekiel sees “the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD” (Ezekiel 1:26-28).

In Ezekiel, the beings beneath God’s throne look partly human and partly animal: they have wings and hands, they shine like burning coals, and each has a wheel full of eyes beside it. Ezekiel calls them living creatures (Ezekiel 1:5), and when he sees them again at the temple he writes, “I knew that they were cherubim” (Ezekiel 10:20). Neither Ezekiel 1 nor Ezekiel 10 uses the word angel. The verses below describe the creatures’ faces, listed twice with one…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 2830, חַשְׁמַל (chashmal): amber, electrum; three occurrences, Ezekiel 1:4, 1:27 and 8:2, rendered “amber” in the King James Version. biblehub.com/hebrew/2830

Strong’s Hebrew 212, אוֹפָן (ophan): wheel. biblehub.com/hebrew/212

Strong’s Hebrew 1534, גַּלְגַּל (galgal): whirling wheels, wagons, wheels. biblehub.com/hebrew/1534

Strong’s Hebrew 3742, כְּרוּב (kerub): cherub, plural cherubim. biblehub.com/hebrew/3742

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