cherubの意味・使い方・発音

cherub

英 ['tʃerəb] 美 ['tʃɛrəb]

ケルビム

ヘブライ語から。

cherub: cherub: [OE] Cherub is of Akkadian origin (Akkad was the northern region of ancient Babylonia). Akkadian karūbu meant ‘gracious’. This was borrowed into Hebrew as kerūbh (plural kerūbhīm), which was used in the Old Testament to signify a certain class of winged divine being. It passed into English via Greek kheroúb and Latin cherūb.
cherub (n.): late 14c. as an order of angels, from Late Latin cherub, from Greek cheroub, from Hebrew kerubh (plural kerubhim) "winged angel," perhaps related to Akkadian karubu "to bless," karibu "one who blesses," an epithet of the bull-colossus. Old English had cerubin, from the Greek plural.
The cherubim, a common feature of ancient Near Eastern mythology, are not to be confused with the round-cheeked darlings of Renaissance iconography. The root of the terms either means "hybrid" or, by an inversion of consonants, "mount," "steed," and they are winged beasts, probably of awesome aspect, on which the sky god of the old Canaanite myths and of the poetry of Psalms goes riding through the air. [Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses," 2004, commentary on Gen. iii:24]

1. The skull-and-crossbones crudely carved on the first tombstones was replaced by a winged cherub .: 最初に墓石にざらざらと刻まれた骸骨と交差する大腿骨パターンは、翼を持つ天使に取って代わられていた。

2.It was easy to see why the cartonists regularly portrayed him as a malign cherub .: 漫画家がいつも邪悪な天使に描いているのも無理はない。

3.Tessa 's face began to look as contented as a cherub 's budding from a cloud.: 苔むした顔は雲の中に初めて現れた小さな天使のような快活さを始めた。

4.The cherub in the painting is very lovely.

この絵の天使はとてもかわいい。