wheelwork
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Ezekiel's vision it is the name of the wheels beside the cherubim, which carry God's throne.
Interpretation. It is part of the Chariot vision, the Merkavah. Tradition treats it as a deep mystery, and later mystics studied it closely.
Meaning
The wheels of a machine taken together; the whole set of wheels. tree →
Examples
- As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing The wheelwork. (Prophets EZK.10.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And it came to pass, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying: 'Take fire from between the wheelwork, from between the cherubim', that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. (Prophets EZK.10.6, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «wheelwork» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «wheelwork» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wheelwork/