seraph

n. 六翼天使

发音

其它 /ˈsɛɹəf/

词形变化

saraph seraphim seraphims seraphs 复数 seraphs seraphim 复数 seraphims 复数

别名

saraph seraphim

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal. A description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6.

    宗教
  2. 2.

    A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.

    炽天使

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

angel

词源

Back-formation of singular from plural seraphim, from Latin seraphim, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (sərāp̄īm), plural form of שָׂרָף (sārāp̄). The plural "seraphims" occurs in the King James Bible (Isaiah chapter 6). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the singular "seraph" may have originated with John Milton, who used it in Book I of Paradise Lost (1667).

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