Wheel
אוֹפָןStrong’s H0212ophan (o-phan)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ophan is the Hebrew word usually translated “wheels”, “wheel” and “wheel of”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 them against the Egyptians.”
Meaning
- Wheelchariot wheel · wheel in Ezekiel's vision · wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Solomon's temple
How it's translated
- the wheels 11
- the wheel 6
- a wheel 4
- and the wheels 4
- wheel of 2
- in the wheels 2
- wheels of 1
- and a wheel of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 14
- 1 Kings 3
- Exodus 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Nahum 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:30And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
- 1 Kings 7:32And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
- 1 Kings 7:33And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
- Proverbs 20:26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
- Isaiah 28:27For 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 staff, and the cummin with a rod.
- Ezekiel 1:15Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Hebrew dictionary
אוֹפָן ophan · wheel
1) wheel 1a) chariot wheel 1b) wheel in Ezekiel's vision 1c) wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Solomon's temple
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wheel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHEEL, noun
- A circular frame of wood, iron or other metal, consisting of a nave or hub, into which are inserted spokes which sustain a rim or felly; the whole turning on an axis.
- A circular body.
- A carriage that moves on wheels.
- An instrument for torturing criminals; as an examination made by the rack and the wheel
All definitions
- A machine for spinning thread, of various kinds.
- Rotation; revolution; turn; as the vicissitude and wheel of things.
- A turning about; a compass.
- In pottery, a round board turned by a lathe in a horizontal position, on which the clay is shaped by the hand.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.