Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
wheel
Usage: 1) wheel 1a) chariot wheel 1b) wheel in Ezekiel's vision 1c) wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Solomon's temple
Ophan means “wheel” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G212 — alazoneia (“boasting”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H212 אוֹפָן אוֹפָן (owphan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. owphan (o-fawn') (or (shortened) pophan {o-fawn'}) n-m. 1. a wheel [from an unused root meaning to revolve] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include wheels and wheel. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
owphan (o-fawn') (or (shortened) pophan {o-fawn'}) n-m. 1. a wheel [from an unused root meaning to revolve] KJV: wheel.
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wheel
Usage: 1) wheel 1a) chariot wheel 1b) wheel in Ezekiel's vision 1c) wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Solomon's temple
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render owphan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in 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.
And 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.
And 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.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H212.
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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
For 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.
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H212, grouped by book.
Ophan (Strong's H212) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "wheel". owphan (o-fawn') (or (shortened) pophan {o-fawn'}) n-m. 1. a wheel [from an unused root meaning to revolve]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H212 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H212 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wheels and wheel. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.