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A traditional depiction of the chariot vision, based on the description in Ezekiel, with an opan on the left side. The ophanim (Hebrew: אוֹפַנִּים ʼōp̄annīm, ' wheels '; singular: אוֹפָן ʼōp̄ān), alternatively spelled auphanim or ofanim, and also called galgalim (Hebrew: גַּלְגַּלִּים galgallīm, ' spheres, wheels, whirlwinds '; singular: גַּלְגַּל ...
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel", often given as "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" is an African American spiritual. The song's music and text has no known author, but originated among enslaved African-Americans on Plantation complexes in the Southern United States sometime in the early 19th century. The lyrics to the song are based on Chapter I of the Book of Ezekiel.
The description parallels the wheels that are beside the living creatures in Ezekiel 1:18; 10:12, which are said to be "full of eyes all around". The Hebrew word for "wheel" (ôpannîm) was also used in later Jewish literature to indicate a member of the angelic orders (1 Enoch 71:7; 3 Enoch 1:8; 7:1; 25:5–6, etc.).
The ancient sages also referred to him by the name Ophan (אוֹפַן "wheel"), a reference to the "wheel within the wheel" from Ezekiel's vision of the heavenly chariot in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 1. [8] Sandalphon is also said to be instrumental in bringing about the differentiation of sex in the embryo. [7]
The noun merkavah "thing to ride in, cart" is derived from the consonantal root רכב r-k-b with the general meaning "to ride". The word "chariot" is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, [5] and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel's vision (), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.
Rotaciurca is named in honour of Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr., who donated thousands of eurypterid fossils to the Yale Peabody Museum, alongside the Latin word rota, meaning "wheel". Its specific name, superbus , from the Latin word meaning "beautiful", acknowledges that Ciurca labelled the holotype fossil "the most beautiful fossil ever found".
Hans Holbein the Younger, Ezekiel’s vision of God, the four living creatures, and a wheel within a wheel, published in Historiarum veteris instrumenti icones ad vivum expressae (1538). In the early 20th century, the scholar Heinz Strauss dated the image to the period 1520–30, while Heinrich Röttinger suggested that it had been made in 1530 ...
This was Ezekiel's Wheel in the Bible that blended with the Central African Kongo cosmogram. This may explain the connection enslaved Black Americans had with the Christian cross, as it resembled their African symbol.