Name Seraphim
Gender Masculine
Usage English, Greek, English (Puritan)
Scripts שׂרף (Hebrew)
Other Forms FormsSerafim
Theme fire
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Meaning & History
Directly from the biblical word seraphim which meant "fiery ones" from Hebrew and referred to an order of angels described in the Book of Isaiah (see SERAPHINA). A famous bearer of the name was Saint Seraphim of Sarov, a 19th-century Russian mystic, in whose case his name was an anglicization of his actual name SERAFIM.