KJV King James Version
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
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Isaiah 6:2
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
WEB World English Bible
Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
ASV American Standard Version
Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two each covereth its face, and with two each covereth its feet, and with two each flieth.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 6
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
שְׂרָפִ֨יםH8314 · sa.raphserpentעֹמְדִ֤ים׀H5975 · a.madto stand: standמִמַּ֙עַל֙H4605 · ma.alaboveל֔וֹH9033 · ohimשֵׁ֧שׁH8337 · sheshsixכְּנָפַ֛יִםH3671 · ka.naphwingשֵׁ֥שׁH8337 · sheshsixכְּנָפַ֖יִםH3671 · ka.naphwingלְאֶחָ֑דH259 · e.chadoneבִּשְׁתַּ֣יִם׀H8147 · she.na.yimtwoיְכַסֶּ֣הH3680 · ka.sahto coverפָנָ֗יוH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeוּבִשְׁתַּ֛יִםH8147 · she.na.yimtwoיְכַסֶּ֥הH3680 · ka.sahto coverרַגְלָ֖יוH7272 · re.gelfootוּבִשְׁתַּ֥יִםH8147 · she.na.yimtwoיְעוֹפֵֽף׃H5774 · uphto fly
Cross-references
Revelation 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about [him]; and [they were] full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Ezekiel 1:11Thus [were] their faces: and their wings [were] stretched upward; two [wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.Psalm 103:20Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.Psalm 104:4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:Psalm 18:10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.1 Kings 6:24And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits.Zechariah 3:4And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.Isaiah 6:6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:Job 15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.Ezekiel 10:21Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings.Ezekiel 1:9Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.1 Kings 22:19And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.Job 1:6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.Revelation 8:13And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!1 Kings 8:7For the cherubims spread forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.Daniel 7:10A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.Exodus 37:9And the cherubims spread out [their] wings on high, [and] covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; [even] to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.Exodus 25:20And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
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