Wheel
WHEEL
Psa 83:13, translated “rolling thing” in Isa 17:13 . Mr. Thomson, for many years a missionary in Syria, thinks the wild artichoke may here be referred to. This plant sends out numerous stalks or branches of equal length in all directions, forming a globe a foot in diameter. These globes become rigid and light as a feather in autumn, and thousands of them fly rolling and bounding over the plains, the sport of every wind. This “rolling thing” furnishes the modern Arabs with a current proverb and a curse.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Wheel
(usually and properly [of a carriage] (, ophn, which is invariably so rendered; sometimes [of any circular object] , galgl, Psa 88:13; Ecc 12:6; Isa 17:13; Jer 47:3; Eze 10:2; Eze 10:6; Eze 10:13; Eze 23:24; Eze 26:10; heaven, Psa 77:18; Dan 7:9; rolling thing, Isa 17:13; or , galgl, Isa 28:28; occasionally , pam, Judges 5, 28, a step, as often elsewhere; , obnayim, Jer 18:3, of a potter’s wheel). We find that the wheels under the brazen laver in Solomon’s Temple were cast; they are thus described by the sacred historian: 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(1Ki 7:33). This is illustrated by the Egyptian chariots. A wheel has been found by Dr. Abbott of a curious construction, having a wooden tire to the felloe, and an inner circle, probably of metal, which passed through and connected its spokes a short distance from the nave (A, A). The diameter of the wheel was about three feet one inch. The felloe was in six pieces, the end of one overlapping the other. The tire was fastened to it by bands of rawhide passing through long, narrow holes (B, B) made to receive them (Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. 1, 382). Among the ancient Assyrians the wheels originally had six spokes, and the felloes consisted of four pieces. They appear to have been thicker and more solid than those of the Egyptians (Layard, Nineveh, 2, 270). Later the wheel had eight and not six spokes, and was apparently strengthened by four pieces of metal, which bound the felloes (ibid. p. 271). SEE CHARIOT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Wheel (2)
The vision of the wheels demands some remark (Eze 1:15-16; Eze 1:19-21): “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 color 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.”
This vision of Ezekiel has always been regarded both by Jews and Christians as very abstruse and difficult of interpretation, so much so, indeed, that the former anciently forbade it to be read by persons under thirty years of age. Bush observes, “From all that we can gather of the form of these wheels, they appear to have been spherical, or each composed of two of equal size, and inserted the rim of the one into that of the other at right angles, and so consisting of four equal parts or half-circles. They were accordingly adapted to run either forward or backward, to the right hand or to the left, without any lateral turning, and by this means their motion corresponded with that of the four faces of the living creatures to which they were attached. ‘When they went upon their four sides, they turned not as they went,’ Heb. ‘When they went, they went upon the quarter-part of their fourfoldness,’ i.e., upon or in the direction of one of the four vertical semicircles into which they were divided, and which looked towards the four points of the compass. When it is said ‘they turned not,’ it is not to be understood that they had not a revolving or rotary motion. but that they, like the faces, never forsook a straightforward course.” A similar cruciform position of the wheels is adopted by most commentators. Of Eze 1:19-20 the same author observes, “These circumstances are doubtless dwelt upon with peculiar emphasis in order to show the intimacy of relation and harmony of action subsisting between the living creatures and the wheels, or, more properly, between the things symbolically represented by them.” Layard observes that the “wheel within wheel” mentioned in connection with the emblematical figures may refer to the winged circle or wheel representing at Nimrud the supreme deity (Nineveh, 3:352). SEE CHERUBIM.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Wheel
(Heb. galgal; rendered “wheel” in Ps. 83:13, and “a rolling thing” in Isa. 17:13; R.V. in both, “whirling dust”). This word has been supposed to mean the wild artichoke, which assumes the form of a globe, and in autumn breaks away from its roots, and is rolled about by the wind in some places in great numbers.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Wheel
WHEEL.The various parts of a cart or chariot wheel are enumerated in connexion with the bronze wheels of Solomons lavers (1Ki 7:30; 1Ki 7:32 f.). In RV [Note: Revised Version.] v. 33 reads: And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves were all molten (cf. AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ). In carts and chariots the essential parts were, of course, of wood. The felloes were made in segments dowelled together. For illustt. see Wilkinson. Anc. Egy. i, 234 ff. The finest specimen of a Roman chariot wheel as yet found has the felloe, which is formed of a single piece of wood bent, and the nave shod with iron, the latter being also bushed with iron (Scott, Hist. Rev., Oct. 1905, p. 123, with illust.). For the potters wheel, see Potter. Wells and cisterns were also furnished with wheels, over which the rope passed for drawing up the water-bucket (Ecc 12:6). See also Cart, Chariot.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Wheel
hwel: (1) , ‘ophan, is the usual word (Exo 14:25, etc.). In Pro 20:26; Isa 28:27 the rollers of a threshing wagon are meant (see AGRICULTURE). (2) , galgal, rolling thing, generally in the sense of wheel (Isa 5:28, etc.), but the Revised Version (British and American) in Eze 10:2, Eze 10:6, Eze 10:13 has whirling wheels, an advantageous change. The wheel … broken at the cistern in Ecc 12:6 is the windlass for drawing the water, and by the figure the breakdown of the old man’s breathing apparatus is probably meant. In Psa 83:13, the King James Version has wheel, but this translation (that of the Septuagint) is quite impossible; the Revised Version (British and American) whirling dust (sucked up by a miniature whirlwind) is perhaps right, but the translations proposed are end-less. (3) , gilgal, Isa 28:28, the roller of a threshing wagon. (4) , ‘obhnayim, Jer 18:3. See POTTER. (5) , paam, Jdg 5:28, literally, step (so the Revised Version margin), and the sound of horses’ hoofs is intended. (6) , trochos, Sirach 33:5; Jam 3:6 (the King James Version course). In the former passage, The heart of a fool is as a cart-wheel, the changeableness of a light disposition is satirized. In James the figure is of a wheel in rotation, so that a flame starting at any point is quickly communicated to the whole. Just so an apparently insignificant sin of the tongue produces an incalculably destructive effect.
The phrase wheel of nature ( , trochos tes geneseos) is used here for the world in progress. It is not a very natural figure and has given rise to much discussion. the King James Version accents trochos (course) instead of trochos ( wheel). but the language throughout is metaphorical and course is not a sufficiently metaphorical word. The translation birth for geneseos (so the Revised Version margin). i.e. a wheel set in motion by birth. is out of the question. as the argument turns on results wider than any individual’s existence. Wheel of nature is certainly right. But a comparison of life to a wheel in some sense or other (chiefly that of Fortune’s wheel) is common enough in Greek and Latin writers, and, indeed the exact combination trochos geneseos is found in at least one (Orphic) writer (full references in the commentaries of Mayor and W. Bauer). It would seem, then, that James had heard the phrase, and he used it as a striking figure, with entire indifference to any technical significance it might have. This supposition is preferable to that of an awkward translation from the Aramaic. See COURSE.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Wheel
Potter’s
Jer 18:3
Figurative
Pro 20:26; Ecc 12:6
Symbolic
Eze 1:15-21; Eze 3:13; Eze 10:9-19; Eze 11:22
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Wheel
* For WHEEL, Jam 3:6, RV, see COURSE, A, No. 4
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Wheel
Psa 83:13 (a) We may believe that it is a type of a rolling, moving mass, with no anchorage, no certain dwelling place, and no goal. It describes the enemies of GOD, and their fickle character.
Ecc 12:6 (c) It is generally believed that this refers to the human heart which fails at the end of the journey, and therefore cannot again pump the blood. It occurs in the midst of the story of old age in which various parts of the body become unfit for service.
Jer 18:3 (a) This type represents the processes of GOD wherein He molds and shapes either a person or a nation into the kind of vessel He desires. It represents the training He gives, and sometimes the whipping necessary in order that He may obtain the result He wishes to have.
Eze 1:15 (b) Wheels always represent progress, motion, purpose, accomplishment. In this Scripture the wheels represent the power of GOD in action. The wheel within a wheel represents the inner motions, purposes and desires of our Lord within Himself. These cause the outer actions which we see, and which are represented by the big wheels. The rims of these wheels reach unto Heaven to inform us that the purposes and works of GOD are higher than ours, too high for our comprehension. The eyes on the wheels represent the omniscience of the Spirit of GOD, who knows full well what He is doing, and understands all the purposes of GOD. He sees the end from the beginning, and nothing is hidden from His sight. (See also Dan 7:9).