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"A common rumor is "Safer" is a misspelling of "Seraph" because of Safer Sephiroth's angelic nature. Although this rumor is false, Sephiroth does bear many similarities to a seraph, as seraphim are described in the Hebrew Bible as being humanoid angels with "six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew." Safer Sephiroth can easily be seen as a seraph missing one of its two flying wings - an imperfect, incomplete seraph. Still, as a source for the word "Safer," "Seraph" is incorrect.


The actual, intended name of "Safer Sephiroth" is "Sepher Sephiroth. "Sepher" is Hebrew for "Book," and "Sephiroth is Hebrew for "Numbers," so the boss's name translates to "Book of Numbers," one of the many Kabbalistic references in Final Fantasy VII. The Sepher Sephiroth is a Kabbalistic treatise concerning the evolution God from a being of inactive rest to one of active creation. It relates to the ten Sephiroth, a central concept of the Kabbalah. This may relate to the origins and purpose of Jenova or the Lifestream, and the concept of "numbers" most obviously alludes to Sephiroth's many forms and the numbers tattooed on his clones.

I read this somewhere. Makes sense.