Ezekiel 10:21

21 {Each one had four faces}, and [there were] four wings for each, and [the] likeness of {human hands} [was] under their wings.

Ezekiel 10:21 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 10:21

Every one had four faces apiece
Every one of the four living creatures, or cherubim, had four faces; which were the face of a man, of a lion, of an ox, and of an eagle, ( Ezekiel 1:10 ) ; and everyone four wings:
the Septuagint version reads eight wings; and the Syriac version "six"; so many in all indeed they had, (See Gill on Ezekiel 1:23); and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings;
(See Gill on Ezekiel 10:8).

Ezekiel 10:21 In-Context

19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and they rose from the earth before my eyes. At their going out, the wheels [were] beside them. And he stood [at] the doorway of the eastern gate of the temple of Yahweh, and the glory of the God of Israel {was over them}.

20 This [was] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel at the {Kebar River}, and I knew that they [were] cherubim.

21 {Each one had four faces}, and [there were] four wings for each, and [the] likeness of {human hands} [was] under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces, they [were] the faces that I saw at the {Kebar River}; [thus was] their appearance, and they each went {straight ahead}.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "four faces [were] for one/each"
• [b] Literally "hands of a man"