Word Study · Strong's H3743 · Hebrew

כְּרוּב

Kerub

ker-oob'

Strong's 1890 spelling: Kᵉrûwb

“Kerub, a place in Babylon”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Kerub, a place in Babylon

Rendered in the KJV as

Cherub.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
1
inflected formdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 1

כְּר֥וּב2

How it is rendered · 1

Kerub2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 1

proper noun (a name)2

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Where this word lives

Ezra1 of 2 · 50%
Nehemiah1 of 2 · 50%

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Ezra1 occurrence

Ezra 2:59כְּר֥וּבkeruvproper noun (a name)The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:here: Kerub

Nehemiah1 occurrence

Nehemiah 7:61כְּר֥וּבkeruvproper noun (a name)The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:here: Kerub

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled כְּרוּב

H3742 · 91×

כְּרוּב

kerub

“a cherub or imaginary figure”

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