Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “Each of those animals looked forward/in front when they moved ahead without turning/changing themselves.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “They were-flying together in any direction, without turning-around. Whenever the spirit would-bring them there they also would-go.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The creatures went straight ahead in whatever direction the spiritthat controlled/guided them wanted them to go, without changing directions while they were moving.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “There was in the middle of those animals a thing that shone like a torch that moved forward coming back. It threw out fire when it flashed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Their appearance was like a burning ember/live-coal, and there was something-that-passed-by in their midst as-if-like a burning lamp. This lamp was very bright, and from this lamp there is a lightning that flashes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Thefour creatures resembled burning coals or torches. A blazing fire moved back and forth among the creatures, and lighting flashed from among them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “The animals dashed and went forward and returned like a lightning that flashed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “These living creatures went-to-and-fro as-if-like a lightning.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The creatures moved back and forthextremely rapidly, like flashes of lightning.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “And while I was still observing those four animals, I saw legs/wheels of/from a chariot that touched the ground. One was at the side/place of each animal.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “As I was-looking at the four living creatures, I saw underneath them four wheels — – one wheel on each of them. And these wheels were upon/on the ground.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “While I looked at the four living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:16)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:16:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those wheels shone brightly and all were as if they had been entered into one another.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “This is the appearance of the wheels: they shone like a precious stone which is chrysolite, and they had the same appearance. Each wheel had one more wheel that intersected,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Each of the wheels was the same, and they all shone like chrysolite/a valuable green stone. Each seemed to have one wheel inside another wheel.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “When they went/moved, they directed themselves to any side that the animals looked. The wheels did not turn/change direction as the things moved.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “so they could-go and the living creatures in any direction which had no need to-be-turned-around.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Whenever they moved, they would go straight in one of the four directions that they faced; they did not turnin another direction while they moved.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “The wheels/legs were raised up/high so that they frightened people and they had eyes surrounding them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The rim of each wheel was-wide and terrifying, for it was full of eyes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Ezekiel 1:19)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ezekiel 1:19:

  • Kupsabiny: “When the animals walked, also the wheels/legs walked/moved and when they rose up the wheels/legs also got/moved up.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “When the living creatures moved/walked the wheels went-with them too, and when they rose-up-higher, the wheels also would-rise-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Whenever the living creatures moved, the wheels moved with them. So whenever the creatures rose from the ground, the wheelsalso rose up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)