seraph

IPA: sɝɑf

(biblical) 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. A description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6.
(post-biblical) A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God. They are the 5th-highest order of angels in Jewish angelology.

Examples of "seraph" in Sentences

The word seraph would better express their heavenly attributes.
The word seraph means "celestial being" and seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels.
All of a sudden there was this seraph, this six-winged angel on a cross, floating right in front of me...
He wears boots of red leather, and huge spurs with bell rowels; and he is never seen without the "seraph".
Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid.
You, dear seraph of the Classic Angel Collection, have twenty more days to teach me this before you're off to your heaven under the stairs.
They seemed to pierce the sky like shining daggers, and Simon realized where he had seen that material before: in the hard, glasslike weapons the Shadowhunters carried, the ones they called seraph blades.
In among the swirls of blackness, she could see the bright flashes of weapons, the Shadowhunters brandishing the brilliant white daggers Tessa knew now were called seraph blades, each one brought into shimmering life by the name of an angel.
The seraph is the divine messenger, and he brings a coal from the altar, and lays that upon the prophet's lips, which is but the symbolical way of saying that the man who is conscious of his own evil will find in himself a blessed despair of being his own healer, and that he has to turn to the divine source, the vision of which has kindled the consciousness, to find there that which will take away the evil.