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Cherubims

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of cherub form-of, irregular, plural

    "And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly."

  2. 2
    plural of Cherubim form-of, plural
  3. 3
    plural of cherubim form-of, plural

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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