Sitting
Bible Usage:
- sitting used 43 times.
- First Reference: Deuteronomy 22:6
- Last Reference: Revelation 4:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H3427 Used 13 times
- H4186 Used 2 times
- H7257 Used 1 time
- H7675 Used 1 time
- G1910 Used 1 time
- G2516 Used 2 times
- G2521 Used 19 times
- G2523 Used 1 time
The attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work. "The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is planning. The washerwoman sits by the tub; and, in a word, no one stands when it is possible to sit. Shopkeepers always sit, and Levi sitting at the receipt of custom (Matthew 9:9) is the exact way to state the case.", Thomson, Land and Book.
SIT'TING, participle present tense
1. Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.
2. adjective In botany, sessile.
SIT'TING, noun
1. The posture of being on a seat.
2. The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.
3. The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness. For a portrait, six or seven sittings may be required.
4. A session; the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; as a sitting of the judges of the king's bench; a sitting of the house of commons; during the sitting of the supreme court.
5. An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted. For the understanding of any one of Paul's epistles, I read it through at one sitting
6. A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.
7. Incubation; a resting on eggs for hatching; as fowls. The male bird amuses the female with his songs, during the whole time of her sitting
Bible Usage:
- sitting used 43 times.
- First Reference: Deuteronomy 22:6
- Last Reference: Revelation 4:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H3427 Used 13 times
- H4186 Used 2 times
- H7257 Used 1 time
- H7675 Used 1 time
- G1910 Used 1 time
- G2516 Used 2 times
- G2521 Used 19 times
- G2523 Used 1 time