seraph

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 sĕrˈ -əf

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal.
  2. A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.
    — From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's

词形变化

seraphs plural seraphim plural seraphims nonstandard,plural saraph alternative,rare seraphim alternative,archaic,nonstandard

词汇关系

近义词
uraeus
衍生词
seraphic seraphlike
相关词
archangel cherub

词源

Back-formation of singular from plural seraphim, from Latin seraphim, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (sərāp̄īm), plural form of שָׂרָף (sārāp̄). 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).
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