Cherub
כְּרוּבStrong’s H3743keruv (ke-ruv)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keruv is the Hebrew word usually translated “kerub”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:”
Meaning
- § Cherub = "blessing"
How it's translated
- kerub 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
כְּרוּב keruv · Cherub
§ Cherub = "blessing" an apparent exilic settlement in Babylonia from which some persons of doubtful extraction returned with Zerubbabel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cherub” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHERUB, noun
plural Cherubs, but the Hebrew plural cherubim is also used.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.