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# אוֹפָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H212

**wheel** — used 35 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/212/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹפַן: n.m. wheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/212/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Ez 1:20 wheel.—abs. אוֹפַן 1 K 7:32 +; אוֹפָן Ez 1:16 +; cstr. אוֹפַן 1 K 7:33 Is 28:27; אֹפַן Ex 14:25; pl. אוֹפַנִּים 1 K 7:32 +; cstr. אוֹפַנֵּי 1 K 7:30; אוֹפַנֵּיהֶם Ez 10:12, etc.— wheel of chariot (מֶרְכָּבָה) Ex 14:25 1 K 7:33 Na 3:2; of (threshing) cart (עֲגָלָה) Is 28:27 cf. Pr 20:26 (as instr. of punishment). wheels in Ezek.’s vision Ez 1:15, 16(×3), 19(×2), 20(×2), 21, (del. Co) 21; 3:13; 10:6, 9(×4), 10(×2), 12(×3), 13, 16(×2), 19; 11:22. wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Sol.’s temple 1 K 7:30, 32(×3), 33.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wheels (16); a wheel (5); the wheels (5).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 20:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.26/#tree)

מְזָרֶ֣ה רְ֭שָׁעִים מֶ֣לֶךְ חָכָ֑ם וַיָּ֖שֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם אוֹפָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].winnowing wicked.\[people\] a.king wise and he.brought.back over them a.wheel

*JPS 1917:* A wise king sifteth the wicked, and turneth the wheel over them.

[Ezekiel 10:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.13/#tree)

לָא֖וֹפַנִּ֑ים לָהֶ֛ם קוֹרָ֥א הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל בְּאָזְנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* to the wheels to them it.was.called the wheel in ears my

*JPS 1917:* As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing The wheelwork.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/212.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/212/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).