cherubims

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. plural of cherub form-of,irregular,plural
    — And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
  2. plural of cherubim form-of,plural

词源

From Hebrew cherubim כרוב, cherub + -ים; the Hebrew is plural, but the translators chose to add -s when borrowing the word into the English form, probably because the readers of the Authorized Version would not be familiar with Hebrew or Latin plurals.
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