What Does Ezekiel 3:13 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
What sounds like three separate noises is one coordinated movement, rising from wings touching to wheels and a great shaking.
THE MEANING
You hear the creatures’ wings touching, the wheels beside them, and a sound of great shaking rising through the scene. Contact and motion gather into tumult, placing you inside the sound now.
THE ROOT
רַעַשׁ
ra'ash
GROWS FROM
רעש
r-ʿ-sh
To quake or shake; tumult, a tremor.
English “rushing” can suggest speed or flowing movement; רעש (ra’ash, shaking or tumult) gives the final sound a tremor-like force. The wings’ contact and the wheels’ sound gather into something you hear as upheaval.
ALSO GROWS
ra'ash: To quake or shake.
רָעַשׁ
This verbal form shows that the sound is connected to trembling movement, not only to speed.
ra'ash: A shaking, earthquake, or tumult.
רַעַשׁ
This noun names the force of the great sound that closes the verse.
מַשִּׁיקוֹת
mashiqot
GROWS FROM
נשק
n-sh-q
To kiss or make contact.
The word rendered “touched” comes from the same root that names a kiss, so the wings meet in contact rather than merely occupying nearby space. English keeps the action but loses that root-level echo.
ALSO GROWS
nashaq: To kiss; to touch.
נָשַׁק
This verb reveals the root shared with the wings’ contact in Ezekiel.
vayyishaq: And he kissed.
וַיִּשַּׁק
This form in Genesis 29:11 makes the root’s bodily sense explicit.
THE PATTERN
When divine movement fills a scene, scripture makes its presence audible through sounds that grow beyond ordinary scale.
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.THE THREAD
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.The Hebrew behind “touched” is מַשִּׁיקוֹת (mashiqot, touching), from נשק (nashaq, to kiss or touch). Psalm 85 uses the same root for righteousness and peace kissing, revealing a shared language of contact and meeting.
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