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 any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say, "'Give place to this man,' and then with mortification you proceed to take the lowest place. read more. "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.
"Beware of the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and dote on salutations in the marketplaces, and on securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places 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 lengthen the tassels, and are fond of the best places at banquets, and the front seats in the synagogues.
and seats of honor at dinner-parties;
"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.
He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them. "When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,
"Beware of the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and dote on salutations in the marketplaces, and on securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places 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 lengthen the tassels, and are fond of the best places at banquets, and the front seats in the synagogues.
and seats of honor at dinner-parties;
"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.
He told a parable to the guests when he noticed how they began choosing the best seats. He said to them. "When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,
"Beware of the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and dote on salutations in the marketplaces, and on securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;