Ezekiel 1:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

Ezekiel 1:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 10:21
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Ezekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Ezekiel 10:11
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
Ezekiel 1:17
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 10:18
Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

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Angel (a Spirit)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-14)

The visions of God which Ezekiel here saw were very glorious, and had more particulars than those which other prophets saw. It is the scope and intention of these vision, 1. To possess the prophet’s mind with very great, and high, and honourable thoughts of that God by whom he was commissioned and for whom he was employed. It is the likeness of the glory of the Lord that he sees (Ezek. 1:28), and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. The hands of each were the hands of a man. The hand is the symbol of active power, guided by skilfulness (Psa 78:72). under their wings--signifying their operations are hidden from our too curious prying; and as the “wings” signify something more than human, namely, the secret prompting of God, it is also implied that they are moved by it and not by their own power, so that they do nothing at r…