ofan · wheel

What it means

ofan (אוֹפָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wheel”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A round part that turns under a cart or wagon to move it forward.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• wheels ×22
• wheel ×13

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Kings×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×25
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 14:25

  He removed the wheels of their chariots and made them drive with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for YHWH is fighting for them against Egypt.”

• 1 Kings 7:30

  And four wheels of bronze belonged to each base, and axles of bronze; and its four corners had supports; below the basin were the supports, cast, with wreaths beside each.

• 1 Kings 7:32

  And the four wheels were below the panels, and the axles of the wheels were in the base; and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and a half.

• 1 Kings 7:33

  And the work of the wheels was like the work of the wheel of a chariot: their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs, all was cast.

• Proverbs 20:26

  A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives over them the wheel.

• Isaiah 28:27

  For black cumin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; but black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

• Ezekiel 1:15

  And I looked at the living creatures, and look, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of its four faces.

• Ezekiel 1:16

  The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the gleam of chrysolite, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearance and their workmanship were as if a wheel were within a wheel.

• Ezekiel 1:19

  And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.

• Ezekiel 1:20

  Wherever the spirit would go, they went, there the spirit was to go; and the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

• Ezekiel 1:21

  When they went, they went; and when they stood still, they stood still; and when they rose from the earth, the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

• Ezekiel 3:13

  and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, and the sound of a great quaking.

• Ezekiel 10:6

  And it came about, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirl, from between the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheel.

• Ezekiel 10:9

  And I looked, and look, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a chrysolite stone.

• Ezekiel 10:10

  And as for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.

• Ezekiel 10:12

  And all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around; the four of them had their wheels.

• Ezekiel 10:13

  As for the wheels, they were called “the whirl” in my ears.

• Ezekiel 10:16

  And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise from the earth, the wheels, they too, did not turn from beside them.

• Ezekiel 10:19

  And the cherubim lifted their wings and rose from the earth before my eyes as they went out, and the wheels alongside them; and it stood at the entrance of the eastern gate of the house of YHWH, and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.

• Ezekiel 11:22

  And the cherubim lifted their wings, and the wheels alongside them, and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.

• Nahum 3:2

  The sound of the whip, and the sound of the rumble of the wheel, and galloping horse, and bounding chariot;

And 14 more times.