əf noun, plural ser·aphs, ser·a·phim 
[-uh-fim] .
[-uh-fim] . 1.
one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
2.
a member of the highest order of angels, often represented as a child's head with wings above, below, and on each side.
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| —n , pl -aphs, -aphim | |
| 1. | theol a member of the highest order of angels in the celestial hierarchies, often depicted as the winged head of a child |
| 2. | Old Testament one of the fiery six-winged beings attendant upon Jehovah in Isaiah's vision (Isaiah 6) |
| [C17: back formation from plural seraphim, via Late Latin from Hebrew] | |
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Seraph
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
seraph
1667, first used by Milton (probably on analogy of cherub/cherubim), singular back-formation from O.E. seraphim (pl.), from L.L. seraphim, from Gk. seraphim, from Heb. seraphim (only in Isa. vi), pl. of *saraph (which does not occur in the Bible), probably lit. "the burning one," from saraph "it burned."
Seraphs were traditionally regarded as burning or flaming angels, though the word seems to have some etymological sense of "flying," perhaps from confusion with the root of Ar. sharafa "be lofty." Some scholars identify it with a word found in other passages interpreted as "fiery flying serpent."
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