Ezekiel 1:14

NETBible

The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. 1 

NIV ©

The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

NASB ©

And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

NLT ©

And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning.

MSG ©

The creatures flashed back and forth like strikes of lightning.

BBE ©

And the living beings went out and came back as quickly as a thunder-flame.

NRSV ©

The living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.

NKJV ©

And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning.

KJV
And the living creatures
<02416>
ran
<07519> (8800)
and returned
<07725> (8800)
as the appearance
<04758>
of a flash of lightning
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NASB ©
And the living
<2421>
beings
<2421>
ran
<7519>
to and fro
<7725>
like
<4758>
bolts
<965>
of lightning
<965>
.
NET [draft] ITL
The living beings
<02416>
moved
<07519>
backward and forward
<07725>
as quickly as flashes of lightning
<0965>
.
HEBREW
qzbh
<0965>
harmk
<04758>
bwsw
<07725>
awur
<07519>
twyxhw (1:14)
<02416>
NETBible

The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. 1 

NET Notes

1 tc The LXX omits v. 14 and may well be correct. The verse may be a later explanatory gloss of the end of v. 13 which was copied into the main text. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.

1 tn Lit., “like the appearance of lightning.” The Hebrew term translated “lightning” occurs only here in the OT. In postbiblical Hebrew the term refers to a lightning flash.