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A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28World_English%29/Ezekiel#Chapter_1 Ezekiel chapter 1] and [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28World_English%29/Ezekiel#Chapter_10 Ezekiel chapter 10]; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
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