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saraph

saraph is the rare form of seraph.

Meaning of seraph

Noun

seraph (plural seraphs or seraphim or (nonstandard) seraphims)

  1. A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal.
  2. (post-biblical) A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.
    • From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's1857 April 1, Herman Melville, chapter XXIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of saraph

pluralseraphim

Origin of saraph

From Biblical Hebrew שָׂרָף (śārāp̄).

Questions about saraph

What is saraph the rare form of?
Saraph is the rare form of seraph.

Words near saraph in the dictionary

  1. sarapa
  2. sarapas
  3. sarapatel
  4. sarape
  5. sarapes
  6. saraph
  7. saraphan
  8. saraphans
  9. Sarapis
  10. Sarapul
  11. Sarasangi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saraph (page history and authors); seraph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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