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cherubims

cherubims

See also: cherubim and cherub

English

Noun

cherubims

  1. (irregular) plural of cherub
    • 1611, Bible (KJV), Hebrews 9:5:
      And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

Etymology

From Hebrew cherubim כרוב, cherub + ‏-ים‎; the Hebrew is plural, but the translators chose to add -s when borrowing the word into the English form, probably because the readers of the Authorized Version would not be familiar with Hebrew or Latin plurals.

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