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Ezekiel 1:14

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

KJV

Et animalia ibant et revertebantur, in similitudinem fulguris coruscantis.

Vulgate

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

ASV

וְ/הַ/חַיּ֖וֹת רָצ֣וֹא וָ/שׁ֑וֹב כְּ/מַרְאֵ֖ה הַ/בָּזָֽק

Hebrew

And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בָּזָֽק
bzq
noun · 1×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
מַרְאֶ֖ה
mr'h
noun · 104×
רָצ֣וֹא
rtsv'
verb · 1×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Dan 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.
  • Dan 10:6 — His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words lik
  • Luke 17:24 — For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
  • Mark 13:27 — And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
  • Matt 24:27 — For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
  • Matt 24:31 — And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
  • Ps 147:15 — He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
  • Rev 14:6 — And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
  • Zech 4:10 — For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through