seraphim

American  

[ser-uh-fim] / ˈsɛr ə fɪm /

noun

1. a plural of seraph.

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Etymology

Origin of seraphim

before 900; Middle English; Old English seraphin < Late Latin (Vulgate) seraphim < Hebrew śərāphīm

Example Sentences

Supported by a flight of blue seraphim, God presides over an image of the entire world, which the artist has abstracted into concentric circles.

From Washington Post

Her sister seraphim teach her that a woman without love is like an “angel without wings.”

From New York Times

She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.

From Los Angeles Times

Its vertical collision of saints and seraphim strongly echoes Caravaggio’s “Seven Acts of Mercy,” and here, too, the high drama of holy suffering is tinged with the violence of the Roman street.

From New York Times

His canvases are lyrical studies of ruins, built up with layers of rubble, ash, sand, scavenged clothes and straw, and dense with historical symbols, like a coiled snake associated with seraphim, the biblical angels.

From New York Times