χερουβιν
cherubim
Where this word appears
Every passage where χερουβιν appears in the Greek Septuagint — 26 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.
- 2 Samuel 6:2 χερουβιν And David arose, and went, he and all the people that were with him, and some of the rulers of Juda, on an expedition to a distant place, to bring back thence the ark of God, on which the name of the Lord of Host who dwells between the cherubs upon it is called.
- 1 Kings 6:23 χερουβιν And he made in the oracle two cherubs of ten cubits measured size.
- 1 Kings 6:27 χερουβιν And both the cherubs were in the midst of the innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each other.
- 1 Kings 6:28 χερουβιν And he covered the cherubs with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:29 χερουβιν He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.
- 1 Kings 6:32 χερουβιν
- 1 Kings 6:32 χερουβιν
- 1 Kings 6:35 χερουβιν being carved with cherubs, and there were palm-trees and open flower-leaves, and it was overlaid with gold gilt upon the engraving.
- 1 Kings 7:16 χερουβιν And he made two molten capitals to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of the other chapiter.
- 1 Kings 7:22 χερουβιν
- 1 Kings 8:6 χερουβιν And the priests bring in the ark into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.
- 1 Kings 8:7 χερουβιν For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.
- 1 Kings 8:7 χερουβιν For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.
- 2 Kings 19:15 χερουβιν and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwell over the cherubs, you are the only god in all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
- 1 Chronicles 13:6 χερουβιν And David brought it up: and all Israel went up to the city of David, which belonged to Juda, to bring up thence the ark of the Lord God who sits between the cherubim, whose name is called on it.
- 1 Chronicles 28:18 χερουβιν And he showed him the weight of the utensils of the altar of incense, which was of pure gold, and the plan of the chariot of the cherubs that spread out their wings, and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7 χερουβιν And he gilded the house, and its inner walls, and the door-posts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8 χερουβιν And he built the holy of holies, its length was according to the front of the other house, the breadth of the house was twenty cubits, and the length twenty cubits: and he gilded it with pure gold for cherubs, to the amount of six hundred talents.
- 2 Chronicles 3:10 χερουβιν And he made two cherubs in the most holy house, wood-work, and he gilded them with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:11 χερουβιν And the wings of the cherubs were twenty cubits in length: and one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house: and the other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 3:13 χερουβιν And the wings of these cherubs expanded were of the length of twenty cubits: and they stood upon their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 χερουβιν And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and wove cherubs in it.
- 2 Chronicles 5:7 χερουβιν And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.
- 2 Chronicles 5:8 χερουβιν And the cherubs stretched out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark, and its staves above.
- 2 Chronicles 5:8 χερουβιν And the cherubs stretched out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark, and its staves above.
- Isaiah 37:16 χερουβιν O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sit upon the cherubs, you alone are the God of every kingdom of the world: you have made heaven and earth.
About this word
About this word
χερουβιν (cheroubin), “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 26 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 →