cherubim

The popular stories/proverbs aren't too unbelievable, but Ezekiel 10 discusses the four wheels besides the cherubim.

Henceforth all was clear: a few words had lifted my intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim.

Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim, but there's the best approximation.

Lets not act like the other vendors in the database arena are cherubim.

Sure, but I'd still want a bling tombstone (angels, cherubim, the works) to tell everyone I basically Owned It when I was alive.

Or young on your strong knees and lifted up Wisdom cried out, whose voice is in the street, And more than twilight of twiformed cherubim Made of his throne indeed a mercy-seat.

In Exodus 25:18-20, on the other hand, God commands Moses to carve statues for a religious purpose: two cherubim which would sit atop the Ark of the Covenant.

Then it's Principalities, Powers, Virtues, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubim and finally Seraphim (the exact order can vary, but I'm going with Dante).

One of the Dead Sea scrolls (4Q405) construes them as angels; late sections of the Book of Enoch (61:10, 71:7) portray them as a class of celestial beings who (along with the Cherubim and Seraphim) never sleep, but guard the throne of God.

Many English dictionaries accept cherubim as a plural of cherub, seraphim as a plural of seraph, aquaria as a plural of aquarium, criteria as a plural of criterion, phenomena as a plural of phenomenon, referenda as a plural of referendum, fora as a plural of forum, etc.

> Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim For what it's worth, the few times I've seen the plural of cherub in the English language (mostly in song lyrics), it was always "cherubs", not "cherubim".

Angels/Cherubim are depicted as winged babies in art, kind of like Cupid.