'Occupy' in the Bible

and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues and at dinner parties,

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

to occupy the place in this ministry and Apostleship from which Judas through transgression fell, in order to go to his own place."

Moreover He is the Head of His Body, the Church. He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, in order that He Himself may in all things occupy the foremost place.