Study it in the app“And I looked, and look, a likeness like the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, like the appearance of radiance, like the gleam of shining metal.”
And I looked,וָאֶרְאֶהand look,וְהִנֵּהa likenessדְמוּתlike the appearanceכְּמַרְאֵהof fire;אֵשׁfrom the appearanceמִמַּרְאֵהof his loinsמָתְנָיוand downward,וּלְמַטָּהfire;אֵשׁand from his loinsוּמִמָּתְנָיוand upward,וּלְמַעְלָהlike the appearanceכְּמַרְאֵהof radiance,זֹהַרlike the gleamכְּעֵיןof shining metal.הַחַשְׁמַלָה
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “ere” appearslikeness
Likeness, resemblance; form, model; "like". It goes with "image": the human being was made to be like God in some way and to represent him, without being equal to him.
Where else “demut” appearsappearance
The appearance of someone or something: how it looks, beautiful or ugly.
Where else “mare” appearsfire
Fire that burns or cooks.
Where else “esh” appearswaist, loins
Waist, loins.
Where else “matnay” appearsbelow, downward
Below, downward, beneath.
Where else “mata” appearsabove
Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".
Where else “mala” appearsbrightness
Brightness, an intense shining.
Where else “zohar” appearsappearance
Literally "the eye": how something looks, its glint.
Where else “en” appearsgleaming metal
A rare word, probably bronze or a polished, shining metal. It appears only in Ezekiel, in the vision of the glory.
Where else “chashmala” appears1And it came about in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of Adonai YHWH fell upon me there.
2 · This verse (above)
3And he stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and a spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of Elohim, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy.
