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 bidden by any one to a marriage feast, sit not on the first seat, lest possibly a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him; and he who bade you and him, coming, shall say to you, 'Give place to this man;' and then you shall, with shame, begin to occupy the lowest place. read more. But, when you are invited, going, sit in the lowest place, that, when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher;' then you will have glory in the presence of all who are reclining at table with you;
"Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and first seats in the synagogues, and first 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 they love the first place in the feasts, and the front seats in the synagogues,
"Woe to you Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces!
And He spake a parable to those who were bidden, when He observed how they were choosing out the first seats; saying to them, "When you are bidden by any one to a marriage feast, sit not on the first seat, lest possibly a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him;
"Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and first seats in the synagogues, and first 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 they love the first place in the feasts, and the front seats in the synagogues,
"Woe to you Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces!
And He spake a parable to those who were bidden, when He observed how they were choosing out the first seats; saying to them, "When you are bidden by any one to a marriage feast, sit not on the first seat, lest possibly a more honorable man than you may have been invited by him;
"Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at feasts;