Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seraphim"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Seraphim
mentioned in Isa. 6:2, 3, 6, 7. This word means fiery ones, in
allusion, as is supposed, to their burning love. They are
represented as "standing" above the King as he sat upon his
throne, ready at once to minister unto him. Their form appears
to have been human, with the addition of wings. (See {ANGELS}.) This word, in the original, is used elsewhere only
of the "fiery serpents" (Num. 21:6, 8; Deut. 8:15; comp. Isa.
14:29; 30:6) sent by God as his instruments to inflict on the
people the righteous penalty of sin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seraphim \Ser"a*phim\, n.
The Hebrew plural of {Seraph}. Cf. {Cherubim}.
Note: The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as
in the King James version of the Bible, --Isa. vi. 2
and 6.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seraph \Ser"aph\, n.; pl. E. {Seraphs}, Heb. {Seraphim}. [Heb.
ser[=a]phim, pl.]
One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs
of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is
represented as one of a class of angels. --Isa. vi. 2.
As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the
rapt seraph that adores and burns. --Pope.
{Seraph moth} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
geometrid moths of the genus {Lobophora}, having the hind
wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.
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