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Meaning of Seraph | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈsɛɹəf

Definitions

  1. A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal. A description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6.
  2. A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.

Equivalents

العربية الساروف سرافيم
Čeština serafín
Dansk seraf
Deutsch Seraph
Ελληνικά σεραφείμ σεραφίμ
Español serafín
Suomi serafi
Français séraphin
עברית שרף
Íslenska serafi
Italiano Serafino
日本語 熾天使
한국어 치천사
Kurdî seraf
Latina seraph
Македонски серафим
Nederlands seraf serafijn
Polski Serafin
Português serafim
Română serafim
Русский серафим
తెలుగు సెరాపు
Tagalog serapin
Українська серафим

Examples

“From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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