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(thing) by dasher (6 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Dec 14 2002 at 21:24:34

The word Seraph may have been derived from the Hebrew word for burning (srefha), possibly because they were supposed to be fire in shape of man. Somewhat like your fantasy fire elemental.
source: my Bible teacher.

(thing) by pfenix (1.8 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Oct 29 2007 at 21:39:45

Although seraphim are often drawn like flaming angels, they were originally six-winged beings, related to - but not a variety of - angels. Their most prominent mentions in the Bible are in Isaiah 6:

Isaiah 6:2 Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

Isaiah 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

(These quotes were taken from the New Oxford Annotated Bible.)

The word in its original plural form has been translated to "six-winged angels," or, more commonly, "seraphs" (as in the New International Version).

Seraphs' antitheses, nephilim, are even less well-known than their more godly cousins. Mentioned only in Genesis, they were apparently one of the primary reasons for Noah's Flood.


(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:02:42

Ser"a*phim (?), n.

The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.

⇒ The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as in the King James version of the Bible, Isa. vi. 2 and 6.

 

© Webster 1913.


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