Sentence:  So he [God] droue out the man &#91;Adam&#93;: and he placed at the East of the garden of Eden, <WSD>Cherubims</WSD>, and a flaming ſword, which turned euery way, to keepe the way of the tree of life. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A winged creature attending on God, described by (Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite) ((short=yes)) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.