Reference: Room
American
Is sometimes synonymous with seat or place, as in Lu 14:8-10; 20:46.
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"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him, and the one who invited you {both} will come [and] say to you, 'Give the place to this person,' and then with shame you will begin to take the last place. read more. But when you are invited, go [and] recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.
"Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,
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 they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues
and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,
Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!
Now he told a parable to those who had been invited [when he] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them, "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him,
"Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,
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 they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues
and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,
Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!
Now he told a parable to those who had been invited [when he] noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them, "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him,
"Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,