cherub

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
2. isim A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.

   “Over the arcke were the cherubyns off glory shadowynge the seate of grace.”

3. isim In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.

   “When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.”

4. isim A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.

   “Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd Cherubin.”