different between seraphim vs archangel

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,

English

Etymology

From Middle English archangel, from Old French archangele, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (arkhángelos) from Ancient Greek prefix ????- (arkhi-) + ??????? (ángelos, “messenger”). Surface analysis arch- +? angel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??(?)?ke?n.d??l/, /???(?).ke?n.d??l/

Noun

archangel (plural archangels)

1. A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).
2. Synonym of angelica (“the garden herb”)

Related terms

Translations

See also

• archangelology
• cherub
• cherubim
• choir
• choirs of angels
• domination
• power
• principality
• seraph
• seraphim
• throne

Welsh

Etymology

From arch- (“arch-”) +? angel (“angel”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ar??a??l/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ar??a?al/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ar??a??l/

Noun

archangel m (plural archangylion)

1. (religion) archangel

Mutation