translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.


text: Or “like a dome.” See 1:22-26 .


text: Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels ( Isa 28:28 ; Ezek 23:24; 26:10 ).


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum mss read plural “cherubim” while the MT is singular here, “cherub.” The plural ending was probably omitted in copying the MT due to the similar beginning of the next word.


text: Heb “right side.”


text: The name (“El Shaddai”) has often been translated “God Almighty,” primarily because Jerome translated it omnipotens (“all powerful”) in the Latin Vulgate. There has been much debate over the meaning of the name. For discussion see W. F. Albright, “The Names Shaddai and Abram ,” JBL 54 (1935): 173-210; R. Gordis, “The Biblical Root sdy-sd ,” JTS 41 (1940): 34-43; and especially T. N. D. Mettinger, In Search of God , 69-72.


text: Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “he”; the referent (the man dressed in linen) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “the wheel.”


text: Heb “the cherub.”


text: The Hebrew text adds, “from among the cherubim.”


text: The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the plan or pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8 ; 1 Chr 28:11 ).


text: The MT repeats this phrase, a clear case of dittography.


text: Heb “Tarshish stone.” The meaning is uncertain. The term has also been translated “topaz” (NEB), “beryl” (KJV, NASB, NRSV), and “chrysolite” (RSV, NIV).


text: Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). See also 1:16 .


text: Many interpreters assume that the human face of each cherub was the one that looked forward.


text: The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.


text: Or “the whirling wheels.”


text: Heb “each one”; the referent (the cherubim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “it was the living creature.”


text: Heb “lifted.”


text: Heb “they”; the referent (the cherubim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “they”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Or “wind.”


text: Heb “living creature.”


text: Heb “them”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).


text: Heb “That was the living creature.”