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     * wise.
     # 31:6; 35:10|
     * made.
     # 26:1-37; 1Ch 15:1|
     * cherubims.
       {Keroovim,} cherubim, not cherubims.  What these were we
       cannot determine.  Some, observing that the verb {kerav} in
       Syriac, sometimes means to resemble, make like, conceive the
       noun {keroov} signifies no more than an image, figure, or
       representation of anything.  Josephus says they were flying
       animals, like none of those which are seen by man, but such
       as Moses saw about the throne of God.  In another place he
       says, "As for the cherubim, nobody can tell or conceive what
       they were like."  These symbolical figures, according to the
       description of them by Ezekiel, (ch. 1:10; 10:14,) were
       creatures with four heads and one body; and the animals of
       which these forms consisted were the noblest of their kind;
       the lion among the wild beasts; the bull among the tame ones;
       the eagle among the birds, and man at the head of all.  Hence
       some have conceived them to be somewhat of the shape of
       flying oxen; and it is alleged in favour of this opinion,
       that the far more common meaning of the verb {kerav,} in
       Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, being to plough, the natural
       meaning of {keroov,} is a creature used in ploughing.  This
       seems to have been the ancient opinion which tradition had
       handed down, concerning the shape of the cherubim with the
       flaming sword, that guarded the tree of life.  (Ge 3:24.)

     # 25:18,22; 1Ki 6:23; 2Ch 3:10; Eze 1:5-28; 10:1-19|