kē´rub (כּרוּב, keruÌ„bh, ΧεÏουÌβ, CherouÌb, ΧαÏουÌβ, CharouÌb): 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.