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cherubinsCherubims

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
542 times in 258 works
Consistency
97.4% (542 of 556)
Reach if approved
~584 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
556 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (542 changes in 258 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 542)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Hee rod vpon the CherubinsCherubims and did flie: hee did euen fly vpon the wings of the b winde …
    With rule
    Hee rod vpon the CherubinsCherubims and did flie: hee did euen fly vpon the wings of the b winde …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 246 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … with the carnings of CherubinsCherubims. The Oliues promising fatnesse, and plenty of blessings; the CherubinsCherubims holinesse and eternitie. These are holy gates; let euery one pray with that royall …
    With rule
    … with the carnings of CherubinsCherubims. The Oliues promising fatnesse, and plenty of blessings; the CherubinsCherubims holinesse and eternitie. These are holy gates; let euery one pray with that royall …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 258 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that Ceremony, The wals of the Temple were carued round about with figures of CherubinsCherubims, 1 Kings 6. 29. And this we haue partly found in our owne experience; both in the …
    With rule
    … that Ceremony, The wals of the Temple were carued round about with figures of CherubinsCherubims, 1 Kings 6. 29. And this we haue partly found in our owne experience; both in the …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 382 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … cannot heare each others crie? What do they but make a stoppe betweene the CherubinsCherubims that they cannot touch each others wing? What do they but make a ditch …
    With rule
    … cannot heare each others crie? What do they but make a stoppe betweene the CherubinsCherubims that they cannot touch each others wing? What do they but make a ditch …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vſed to expreſſe their intent, looking into theſe things, being an alluſion to the CherubinsCherubims placed in the Arke ſo as that they did alwaies looke towards the mercy …
    With rule
    … vſed to expreſſe their intent, looking into theſe things, being an alluſion to the CherubinsCherubims placed in the Arke ſo as that they did alwaies looke towards the mercy …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … but the high priest saw them, and that but once a yeare. And the CherubinsCherubims without the vayle though they were to be seene, yet were they not to …
    With rule
    … but the high priest saw them, and that but once a yeare. And the CherubinsCherubims without the vayle though they were to be seene, yet were they not to …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 963 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … shall stand diuided in squadrons, all alike adorned, the Seraphins on one side, the CherubinsCherubims on the other: of the which, one part shall sound instruments of diuers sorts …
    With rule
    … shall stand diuided in squadrons, all alike adorned, the Seraphins on one side, the CherubinsCherubims on the other: of the which, one part shall sound instruments of diuers sorts …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 257 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … pry into the mystery of our Salvation by Christ, they are students therein, the CherubinsCherubims, they were set upon the mercy seate, having a counterview, one upon another, implying …
    With rule
    … pry into the mystery of our Salvation by Christ, they are students therein, the CherubinsCherubims, they were set upon the mercy seate, having a counterview, one upon another, implying …

    Richard Sibbes · The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law · p. 251 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Prelections Upon Revelation A01320

  • Printed
    … Ezechiell vnderstode those 4. beastes which were shewed to him in the vision to be cherubinsCherubims, that is Aungelicale spirits, whose ministry God vseth in the gouermēt, of the world …
    With rule
    … Ezechiell vnderstode those 4. beastes which were shewed to him in the vision to be cherubinsCherubims, that is Aungelicale spirits, whose ministry God vseth in the gouermēt, of the world …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

A Fruitful Treatise A16577

  • Printed
    … hath prepared for them that loue hym. There the archangels, angels, powers, thrones, dominions, cherubinsCherubims, Seraphins, Patriarkes, Prophetes, apoſtles, martyrs, Virgins, confeſſors, and ryghteous ſpirites ceaſe not to ſinge …
    With rule
    … hath prepared for them that loue hym. There the archangels, angels, powers, thrones, dominions, cherubinsCherubims, Seraphins, Patriarkes, Prophetes, apoſtles, martyrs, Virgins, confeſſors, and ryghteous ſpirites ceaſe not to ſinge …

    John Bradford · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader

The Strait Gate A30209

  • Printed
    … why they had sinned and therefore God set at the east of that garden, cherubinsCherubims and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree …
    With rule
    … why they had sinned and therefore God set at the east of that garden, cherubinsCherubims and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree …

    John Bunyan · The Strait Gate · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Eli Trembling for Fear of the Ark A31910

  • Printed
    … thee, and commune with thee from above the Mercy seat, from between the two cherubinsCherubims which are upon the A…k for the testimony of all things which I …
    With rule
    … thee, and commune with thee from above the Mercy seat, from between the two cherubinsCherubims which are upon the A…k for the testimony of all things which I …

    Edmund Calamy · Eli Trembling for Fear of the Ark · p. 2 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

  • Printed
    at the gates, twelve angels] As porters, to receive men into heaven, Luke 16. 22. Not cherubinsCherubims, to keep us out, Gen. 3. 24. Or, to guard us in the church on earth …
    With rule
    at the gates, twelve angels] As porters, to receive men into heaven, Luke 16. 22. Not cherubinsCherubims, to keep us out, Gen. 3. 24. Or, to guard us in the church on earth …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader