240 occurrences in 12 translations

'Sit' in the Bible

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?

And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

having said, Go away to the village over-against, in which, entering into, ye shall find a colt bound, on which no one of men did ever sit, having loosed it, bring it;

And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"

and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple complex. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.

And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Now a man who had no power in his feet used to sit in the streets of Lystra. He had been lame from his birth and had never walked.

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

You are therefore without excuse, O man, whoever you are who sit in judgement upon others. For when you pass judgement on your fellow man, you condemn yourself; for you who sit in judgement upon others are guilty of the same misdeeds;

although he is a Gentile by birth, if he scrupulously obeys the Law, shall he not sit in judgement upon you who, possessing, as you do, a written Law and circumcision, are yet a Law-breaker?

Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?

Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?

of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places ,

And the sum concerning the things spoken of is: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Here is the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,

And he saith to me, 'The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;'

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
συνανάκειμαι 
sunanakeimai 
sit at meat with , sit with , sit together with , sit down with , sit at table with
Usage: 8

ἀνακλίνω 
Anaklino 
Usage: 5

ἀνακεῖμαι 
Anakeimai 
sit at meat , guests , sit , sit down , be set down , lie , lean , at the table
Usage: 10

κάθημαι 
Kathemai 
sit , sit down , sit by , be set down , dwell
Usage: 78

κατακλίνω 
Kataklino 
Usage: 1

ἀναπίπτω 
Anapipto 
sit down , sit down to meat , be set down , lean
Usage: 8

καθίζω 
Kathizo 
sit , sit down , set , be set , be set down , continue , tarry
Usage: 30

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 16

דּגר 
Dagar 
Usage: 2

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

יתב 
Y@thiyb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

משׁב מושׁב 
Mowshab 
Usage: 44

מצק מצוּק 
Matsuwq 
Usage: 2

שׁבת 
Shebeth 
Usage: 3

ἀνακαθίζω 
Anakathizo 
sit up
Usage: 2

ἐπιβαίνω 
Epibaino 
sit , come , go aboard , take 9 , come into , enter into
Usage: 6

καθέζομαι 
Kathezomai 
sit
Usage: 5

κατάκειμαι 
Katakeimai 
lie , sit at meat , keep , sat down
Usage: 11

παρακαθίζω 
Parakathizo 
sit
Usage: 1

συγκάθημαι 
Sugkathemai 
sat Trans , sit with
Usage: 2

συγκαθίζω 
Sugkathizo 
Usage: 2

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