A Cherub's first definition in the dictionary is , “A winged heavenly creature.” Cherubim is the plural of cherub. In the Word, the words cherub or cherubim are used to indicate a guard - the Lord’s providence guarding against profanation, which is the mixing of truth with evil, or good with falsity.

(सन्दर्भ: Apocalypse Revealed 48 [4]; Arcana Coelestia 308, 9506 [1-5])

307. The subject here is the sixth and seventh generations, which perished in the Flood. They were expelled outright from the garden of Eden, that is, from all understanding of truth. They ceased so to speak to be human beings and were abandoned to their insane desires and persuasions.