cherubims

See also: cherubim and cherub

English

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.

Noun

cherubims

(irregular) plural of cherub
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 9:5:
  
  And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

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