Ezekiel 1:14
New International Version
The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

New Living Translation
And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning.

English Standard Version
And the living creatures darted to and fro, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Berean Standard Bible
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

King James Bible
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

New King James Version
And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning.

New American Standard Bible
And the living beings ran back and forth like bolts of lightning.

NASB 1995
And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

NASB 1977
And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the living creatures ran to and fro with the appearance of lightning.

Amplified Bible
And the living beings moved rapidly back and forth like flashes of lightning.

Christian Standard Bible
The creatures were darting back and forth like flashes of lightning.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The creatures were darting back and forth like flashes of lightning.

American Standard Version
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the living creatures were running and were not turning, like the appearance of a comet

Brenton Septuagint Translation


Contemporary English Version
The creatures themselves moved as quickly as sparks jumping from a fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.

English Revised Version
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The living creatures ran back and forth like lightning.

Good News Translation
The creatures themselves darted back and forth with the speed of lightning.

International Standard Version
The living beings moved around, in appearance resembling lightning.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Literal Standard Version
And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.

Majority Standard Bible
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

New American Bible
The creatures darting back and forth flashed like lightning.

NET Bible
The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.

New Revised Standard Version
The living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.

New Heart English Bible
The living creatures darted back and forth, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

World English Bible
The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Young's Literal Translation
And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Four Living Creatures
13In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 14The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

Cross References
Matthew 24:27
For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:24
For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

Zechariah 4:10
For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel."


Treasury of Scripture

And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Psalm 147:15
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.

Daniel 9:21
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

Zechariah 2:3,4
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, …

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Ezekiel 1
1. The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar.
4. His vision of four cherubim;
15. of the four wheels;
26. and of the glory of God.














(14) A flash of lightning.--Not only was the appearance of the cherubim thus glittering, but also their speed as they "ran and returned" was that of the lightning.

The vision up to this point, so far as we may venture to interpret its object, seems designed to show forth the power and activity, the irresistible energy of the agencies employed for the fulfilment of the Divine purposes, and at the same time their perfectly harmonious action, controlled by one supreme will. We now enter upon a fresh phase of the vision, in which the same things are represented still further by an additional and peculiar symbolism.

Verse 14. - Ran and returned. Compare the "to and fro" of Zechariah 4:10. The comparison implies at once suddenness (as in Matthew 24:27) and overwhelming brightness.

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Hebrew
The creatures
וְהַחַיּ֖וֹת (wə·ha·ḥay·yō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

were darting back and forth
רָצ֣וֹא (rā·ṣō·w)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7519: To run, to delight in

as quickly as
כְּמַרְאֵ֖ה (kə·mar·’êh)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4758: Sight, appearance, vision

flashes of lightning.
הַבָּזָֽק׃ (hab·bā·zāq)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 965: A flash of lightning


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