אוֹפָן ophan
Hebrew word for “wheel” · Strong’s H212 · used 35 times in 21 verses
Meaning
1) wheel; 1a) chariot wheel; 1b) wheel in Ezekiel's vision; 1c) wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Solomon's temple
How it is translated
Glosses given for ophan in context, with how often each is used:
- wheels 22
- wheel 13
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 10 (7), Ezekiel 1 (5), 1 Kings 7 (3), Exodus 14 (1), Proverbs 20 (1), Isaiah 28 (1), Ezekiel 3 (1), Ezekiel 11 (1), Nahum 3 (1)
Forms
- האופנים 11
- האופן 6
- אופן 5
- והאופנים 4
- ואופן 2
- באופנים 2
- אפן 1
- אופני 1
- אופנים 1
- אופניהם 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with ophan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עֻמָּה ummah “close” 5
- אַרְבַּע arba “four” 7
- אֵצֶל etsel “beside” 5
- כְּרוּב keruv “cherub” 5
- כָּנָף kanaph “wing” 5
- נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 6
- אֶחָד echad “one” 6
- חַי chay “alive” 5
- מֶרְכָּבָה merkavah “chariot” 3
- מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 3
- תַּרְשִׁישׁ tarshish “jasper” 2
- גַּב gav “back/rim/brow” 2
Key verses
The verses using ophan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 14:25 — And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for…
- Proverbs 20:26 — A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
- Isaiah 28:27 — For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a…
- Ezekiel 1:15 — Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
- Ezekiel 1:16 — The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it…
- Ezekiel 1:19 — And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
- Ezekiel 1:20 — Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living…
- Ezekiel 10:9 — And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was…
- Ezekiel 10:10 — And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
- Ezekiel 10:19 — And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood…
- Ezekiel 11:22 — Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Nahum 3:2 — The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.