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Gender Masculine & Feminine
Scripts Σεραφείμ(Greek)
Other Forms FormsSerafim (Greek)
Meaning & History
Directly from the biblical word seraphim which meant "fiery ones", from Hebrew שרף (saraf) meaning "to burn", referring 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.