. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Wady el- Yabis (Jabesh). Thetradition mentioned by Marinus Sanutus in 1321,that it ran by Phasaelus, Herods city in the Jordanvalley, would make it the ?Ain el-F%isdil, a fountainconcealed under high cliffs, from which a brookflows through a narrow valley, S. of Kurn Surtabeh,and falls into the Jordan about fifteen miles aboveJericho. This view is supported by Bachiene, a. , and by Van de Velde (ii. 310). Robinson, on 164 CHE CUE the other hand (i. 558), would find the name in theWady Kelt, a deep, wild ravine, also W. of Jordan,and behind Jeri
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Wady el- Yabis (Jabesh). Thetradition mentioned by Marinus Sanutus in 1321,that it ran by Phasaelus, Herods city in the Jordanvalley, would make it the ?Ain el-F%isdil, a fountainconcealed under high cliffs, from which a brookflows through a narrow valley, S. of Kurn Surtabeh,and falls into the Jordan about fifteen miles aboveJericho. This view is supported by Bachiene, a. , and by Van de Velde (ii. 310). Robinson, on 164 CHE CUE the other hand (i. 558), would find the name in theWady Kelt, a deep, wild ravine, also W. of Jordan,and behind Jericho. Ctierab [ke-] (Heb.; see next article below), ap-parently a place in Babylonia from which some per-sons of doubtful extraction returned to Judea withZerubbabel (Ezr. ii. 59 ; Neb. vii. 61). Cher ub, ( her n-bim, Cher -a-bims [ch as in churchand Rachel] (Heb. cerub or crub = a keeper, warder,ejuard, sc. of the Deity, to guard against all ap-proach ? Ges. ; Heb. pi. cirubim or crubim. Manyother etymologies have been proposed.) In regard. Assyrian sphinx.—(Layard, 11. 349.) to cherubim, two principal opinions have been held :(1.) that they are an order of superhuman beings,having a separate and real existence (see below);(2.) that they were merely symbolical figures orimaginary beings, like the composite creature-forms in the religious insignia of Assyria, Egypt, Babylonia,and Persia, e. g. the sphinx, the gryphons or griffins,winged bulls and lions of Nineveh, &c. (Nisroch.)In the sacred boats or arks of the Egyptians, (cut, ), are sometimes found two figures with extendedwings, which remind us of the description of thecherubim covering the mercy-seat with their wings,and their faces (looking) one to another (Ex. xxv. 20).The cherubim are first mentioned as placed at the the garden of Eden (Gen. iii. 24). A pair (Ex,xxv. is, &c.) were placed on the mercy-seat of theark: a pair of colossal size, probably in addition tothe others, overshadowed it in Solomons Tem-pl
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