There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
Parallel translations
- KJV And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
- BSB (The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)
- NKJV The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
- NASB The cherubim appeared to have something like a human hand under their wings.
- NLT (All the cherubim had what looked like human hands under their wings.)
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Ezek 1:8They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings thus:
- Ezek 10:21Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
- Isa 6:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
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