different between seraph vs seraphim

English

Etymology

Back-formation of singular form plural seraphim, from Latin seraphim, from Hebrew ?????? (serafim), plural form of ???? (saraf). 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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s???f/

Noun

seraph (plural seraphs or seraphim or seraphims)

1. (biblical) A six-winged angel; the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God. They are the 5th highest order of angels in Jewish angelology. A detailed description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6

Translations

See also

• archangel
• cherub

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, phrase, raphes, shaper, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear

English

Etymology

From Latin seraphim, from Hebrew ?????????? (s'rafím), plural of ??????? (saráf) of which the meaning is uncertain; perhaps related to the root ???? (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

Noun

seraphim

1. plural of seraph

Coordinate terms

• cherubim

Translations

Anagrams

• pesharim, samphire

Latin

Alternative forms

• seraphin

Etymology

From Hebrew ?????????? (s'rafím), plural of ??????? (saráf) of which the meaning is uncertain; perhaps related to the root ??? "to burn".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ra.p?i?m/, [?s???äp?i?m]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ra.fim/, [?s????fim]

Noun

seraph?m m (indeclinable)

1. The seraphim, a choir of angels.
   • Nova Vulgata, Isaiah 6:2&6

     Seraphim stabant iuxta eum; sex alae uni et sex alae alteri: duabus velabat faciem suam et duabus velabat pedes suos et duabus volabat.

     Et volavit ad me unus de seraphim, et in manu eius calculus, quem forcipe tulerat de altari,