Ophan אוֹפָן

Ophan (Hebrew אוֹפָן, Strong's H212) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “wheel”. It occurs 35 times in 21 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Ophan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 14:25
  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.He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 7:30
  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.Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.
• 1 Kings 7:32
  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.There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.
• 1 Kings 7:33
  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.The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 20:26
  A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 28:27
  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.Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 1:15
  Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
• Ezekiel 1:16
  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.The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
• Ezekiel 1:19
  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.So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
• Ezekiel 1:20
  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.Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
• Ezekiel 1:21
  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.When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
• Ezekiel 3:13
  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.It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.
• Ezekiel 10:6
  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.When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.
• Ezekiel 10:9
  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.Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.
• Ezekiel 10:10
  And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.
• Ezekiel 10:12
  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.Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
• Ezekiel 10:13
  As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.”
• Ezekiel 10:16
  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.When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.
• Ezekiel 10:19
  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.As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
• Ezekiel 11:22
  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.Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

Nahum

• Nahum 3:2
  The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).