Reference: Room
American
Is sometimes synonymous with seat or place, as in Lu 14:8-10; 20:46.
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When thou art bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him, and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place. read more. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he that hath bidden thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have glory in the presence of all that sit at meat with thee.
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;
Fausets
In Mt 23:6; Mr 12:39; Lu 14:7-8; 20:46, not in our sense, but "place at table". Expressed in Lu 11:43 "uppermost". (See REHOBOTH.)
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and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts:
Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.
And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him,
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;
Hastings
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Smith
Room.
The references to "room" in
Mt 23:6; Mr 12:39; Lu 14:7-8; 20:46
signify the highest place on the highest couch round the dinner or supper table --the "uppermost seat", as it is more accurately rendered in
Lu 11:43
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and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts:
Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.
And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him,
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;