International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Cherub

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Cherub


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kē´rub (כּרוּב, kerūbh, Χερούβ, Cheroúb, Χαρούβ, Charoúb): A place in Babylonia from which people whose genealogies had fallen into confusion went up at the return from exile (; ); unidentified. In 1 Esdras 5:36 we read “Charaathalan leading them, and Allar,” a phrase that seems to have arisen through confusion of the names in the passages cited above.