Ezekiel 1:22

1:22

like <01823> [the likeness.]

ice <07140> [crystal.]

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.

Ezekiel 23:15

23:15

belts <0232> [with girdles.]

officers <07991> [all of.]

looking like <04758> [look to.]

That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.

Ezekiel 29:6

29:6

know <03045> [know.]

staff <04938> [a staff.]

Ezekiel 42:3

42:3

35 feet ........... pavement <06242 07531> [Over.]

One side of these buildings looked upon the void space about the temple of twenty cubits, and the other toward the pavement belonging to the outer court.

35 feet <06242> [the twenty.]

pavement <07531> [the pavement.]

gallery faced gallery <06440 0862> [gallery against.]