cherubims
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]cherubims
- (irregular) plural of cherub
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 9:5:
- And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
- plural of cherubim