WHEEL — the wheels beside the living creatures in Ezekiel 1, gleaming like beryl, 'a wheel within a wheel,' their rims full of eyes, moving wherever the spirit goes. Ordinary Hebrew for a cart-wheel; later Jewish angelology promoted the OPHANIM into an order of angels ranked with the cherubim and seraphim — celestial beings that began as furniture in this vision. → first discussed at Ezekiel 1:15