Bible dictionaries

Cherethim

What Bible dictionaries say about “Cherethim”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Cherethim - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Ezek. 25:16), more frequently Cherethites, the inhabitants of Southern Philistia, the Philistines (Zeph. 2:5). The Cherethites and the Pelethites were David's life-guards (1 Sam. 30:14; 2 Sam. 8:18; 20:7, 23; 23:23). This name is by some interpreted as meaning "Cretans," and by others "executioners," who were ready to execute the king's sentence of death (Gen. 37:36, marg.; 1 Kings 2:25).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

(axe-men), (Ezekiel 25:16) same as CHERETHITES.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3