χερουβείμ
cherubim
Where this word appears
Every passage where χερουβείμ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 24 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 17:11 χερουβείμ And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.
- Psalms 79:2 χερουβείμ before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up your power, and come to deliver us.
- Psalms 98:1 χερουβείμ The Lord reigns; —let the people rage; it is he that sits upon the cherubs, let the earth be moved.
- Ezekiel 9:3 χερουβείμ And the glory of the God of Israel, that was upon them, went up from the cherubs to the porch of the house. And he called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on his loins;
- Ezekiel 10:1 χερουβείμ Then I looked, and, behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubs there was a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.
- Ezekiel 10:2 χερουβείμ And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.
- Ezekiel 10:2 χερουβείμ And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.
- Ezekiel 10:3 χερουβείμ And the cherubs stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
- Ezekiel 10:4 χερουβείμ Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubs to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.
- Ezekiel 10:5 χερουβείμ And the sound of the cherubs' wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God speaking.
- Ezekiel 10:6 χερουβείμ And it came to pass, when he gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubs, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.
- Ezekiel 10:7 χερουβείμ And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubs, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took it, and went out.
- Ezekiel 10:8 χερουβείμ And I saw the cherubs having the likeness of men's hands under their wings.
- Ezekiel 10:9 χερουβείμ And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.
- Ezekiel 10:15 χερουβείμ And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chobar.
- Ezekiel 10:16 χερουβείμ And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.
- Ezekiel 10:16 χερουβείμ And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.
- Ezekiel 10:18 χερουβείμ Then the glory of the Lord departed from the house, and went up on the cherubs.
- Ezekiel 10:19 χερουβείμ And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.
- Ezekiel 10:20 χερουβείμ This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chobar; and I knew that they were cherubs.
- Ezekiel 11:22 χερουβείμ Then the cherubs lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Ezekiel 41:18 χερουβείμ were carved cherubs and palm-trees between the cherubs, and each cherub had two faces.
- Ezekiel 41:20 χερουβείμ From the floor to the ceiling were cherubs and palm-trees carved.
- Ezekiel 41:25 χερουβείμ And there was carved work upon them, and cherubs on the doors of the temple, and palm-trees according to the carving of the sanctuary; and there were stout planks in front of the porch without.
About this word
About this word
χερουβείμ (cheroubeím), “cherubim,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 24 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →