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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 1:22 — And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
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the likeness
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Eze 1:26; Eze 10:1; Exd 24:10; Job 37:22; Rev 4:3,6; Rev 21:11 |
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crystal
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The Hebrew kerach, which generally denotes ice, doubtless here signifies crystal, ([krystallos] from [kryos] cold, ice, and [stellomai] to concrete,) as it is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate. It is a very large class of silicious minerals, hard, pellucid, naturally colourless, of regularly angular figures, and of simple plates; not flexible, nor elastic, but giving fire with steel; not fermenting by acid menstrua, but calcinable in a strong fire. There are three orders of pure crystal: the first is perfect columnar crystals, with double pyramids, of eighteen planes, in an hexangular pyramid at each end; the second is that of perfect crystals, without a column, of twelve or sixteen planes, in two hexangular pyramids: and the third is that of imperfect crystals, with single pyramids, of ten or twelve planes, in an hexangular or pentangular column. Terrible crystal seems to denote that which was well cut and polished, vividly refracting the rays of light. |
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Eze 1:26 |
And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. |
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Eze 10:1 |
Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. |
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Exd 24:10 |
And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness. |
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Job 37:22 |
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is] terrible majesty. |
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Rev 4:3 |
And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. |
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Rev 4:6 |
And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, [were] four beasts full of eyes before and behind. |
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Rev 21:11 |
Having the glory of God: and her light [was] like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ezekiel 1:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Eze/1/22.html>.
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