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אוֹפָן H212
H212 is the Hebrew word אוֹפָן, transliterated ʼôwphân and said o-fawn'. The King James Version most often renders it wheels.
What it means
a wheel.
Where it comes from
or (shortened) אֹפָן; from an unused root meaning to revolve.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 30 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: wheel.
Verses using אוֹפָן
All 20 verses, quoted in full.
Exodus 14:25 · KJV
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
1 Kings 7:30 · KJV
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
1 Kings 7:32 · KJV
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
1 Kings 7:33 · KJV
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.
Proverbs 25:11 · KJV
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Isaiah 28:27 · KJV
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Ezekiel 1:15 · KJV
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Ezekiel 1:16 · KJV
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour 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.
Ezekiel 1:19 · KJV
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.
Ezekiel 1:20 · KJV
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.
Ezekiel 1:21 · KJV
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.
Ezekiel 3:13 · KJV
I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
Ezekiel 10:9 · KJV
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
Ezekiel 10:10 · KJV
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:12 · KJV
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
Ezekiel 10:13 · KJV
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
Ezekiel 10:16 · KJV
And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
Ezekiel 10:19 · KJV
And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel 11:22 · KJV
Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Nahum 3:2 · KJV
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Common questions
What does Strong's H212 mean?
H212 is the Hebrew word אוֹפָן (ʼôwphân), meaning a wheel.
How is H212 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it wheels (19 times), wheel (7 times), fitly (1 time), if a wheel (1 time), even the wheels (1 time), among others.
How many times does H212 appear in the Bible?
אוֹפָן (ʼôwphân) is tagged in 20 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H212 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: or (shortened) אֹפָן; from an unused root meaning to revolve.
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