Putting aside the cherubim and seraphim, they are not spoken of as having wings.

Seraphim, Geschichte Liv-, Esth-, and Kurlands (2nd ed., Revel, 1897-1904) and Geschichte von Livland (Gotha, 1905, &c.).

the seraphim, superhuman beings with six wings, appear as the attendants of Yahweh.

In old times, the bne Elohim and the seraphim are His court, and the angels are alike the court and the army of God; the cherubim are his throne-bearers.

The Order of the Seraphim (the " Blue Ribbon ").

The collar is formed of alternate gold seraphim and blue enamelled patriarchal crosses.

7 "seraphim" stood where the Ethiopic and the Greek give "the serpents" or "the dragons"; Paradise, serpents and cherubim are here made subject to Gabriel.

The seraphim were burning serpentine forms who hovered above the enthroned Yahweh and chanted the Trisagion in Isaiah's consecration vision (Isa.

In 1824, however, Prince Galitzin ceased to be procurator of the Holy Synod, and Seraphim, metropolitan of St Petersburg, became president of the Russian Bible Society.

Here belong, inter alia, the well-known orders of the Garter (England), Golden Fleece (Austria and Spain), Annunziata (Italy), Black Eagle (Prussia), St Andrew (Russia), Elephant (Denmark) and Seraphim (Sweden).

Vasa in 1522, and was re-established by Frederick I., with the Seraphim and the Pole Star in 1748; modifications have been made in 1798, 1814 and 1889.

SERAPHIM, the imaginary supernatural guardians of the threshold of Yahweh's sanctuary, only mentioned in Isa.

They may originally have had a serpent form, for it is difficult not to regard "seraphim" as originally (as in Num.

Mythical features abound in the cherubim and seraphim, the pillars of Jachin and Boaz, the mysterious Nehushtan, the bronze-sea and the lavers.

Muller, Beitrrige zur Orographie and Hydrographie von Esthland (1869-1871); Bunge, Das Herzogthum Esthland enter den Konigen von Drinemark (1877); and Seraphim, Geschichte Liv-, Est-, and Kurlands (2nd ed., 1897) and various papers in the FinnischUgrische Forschungen.

Seraphim, Geschichte LivEstand Kurlands bis zur Einverleibung in das russische Reich (Reval, 1895) C. Silfverstolpe, Historiskt bibliothek (Stockholm, 1875); R.

Seraphim, Geschichte Liv -, Esth -, and Kurlands (2 vols., Reval, 1895-1896).

Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.

In particular he has been vigorously defended by the highly respected American monk, Blessed Seraphim Rose.

It is doubtful how far Ezekiel's account of the cherubim and Isaiah's account of the seraphim are to be taken as descriptions of actual beings; they are probably figurative, or else subjective visions.

The most powerful angels are the Seraphim.

Seraphim are said to encircle the throne of God.

Daisy's music career began with the band Seraphim Shock, for whom she played bass.

(vi.) THE Seraphim (Sweden).

" Seraphim," and cf.