ke.ruv is used as a proper name in lists of people returning whose ancestry could not be established.

The supplied occurrences use the term as a proper name within parallel lists of those who came up but could not establish their ancestral house or descent.

1. Proper name in a returnee list · dominant

   In Ezra 2:59 and Nehemiah 7:61, the form is tagged as a proper noun and stands in a list with Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Addan or Addon, and Immer. In Ezra 2:59 the APB renders the list among those who came up but could not prove their ancestral houses or descent; Nehemiah 7:61 similarly describes those unable to declare their fathers' houses or seed.

   Ezra 2:59Nehemiah 7:61

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Cherub” in both listed sequences. The proper-name function is confirmed chiefly by the supplied morphology and list position.