71 occurrences in 9 translations

'Sits' in the Bible

and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

Verse ConceptsGrindingSittingThroneDeath Of The FirstbornDeath Of CreaturesGreat And SmallBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other GroupsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildFamily Death

Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

Verse ConceptsSeatsBedsUnclean Things

Whoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsSeatsBedsUnclean Until Evening

Anything she lies on during her menstruation will become unclean, and anything she sits on will become unclean.

Verse ConceptsUnclean Things

Whoever touches any thing on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.

Verse ConceptsUnclean Things

“Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Verse ConceptsScrollsThroneWritingCopies Of Documentslawroyalty

So the people sent word to Shiloh and took away from there the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who sits above the cherubim.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatCherubim, At God's ThroneGod Sitting In GloryGod As A WarriorCherubim Depicted

David and all the men who were with him traveled to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsJudgment SeatCherubim, At God's ThroneGod's Shekinah GloryGod, Presence OfGod Sitting In GloryCalled By God's Name

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.”

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionCedarProperty, HousesTentsBuilding God's DwellingRoyal HousesThe Ark Moved AroundCedar WoodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah."

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelKings Of All Israel Or Judah

Solomon now sits on the royal throne.

Verse ConceptsThrone

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewn unto thy servant David my father great loving-kindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great loving-kindness, that thou hast given him a son who sits upon his throne, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtKindnessRighteousness, Of BelieversSittingThroneCharacter Of SaintsGod Showed His Lovingkindness

David, accompanied by all of Israel, went up to Baalah (the former name of Kiriath-jearim), which belonged to Judah, to bring from there the Ark of God, the LORD, who sits enthroned on the cherubim, and who is called the Name.

Verse ConceptsJudgment Seat

Then the king told Haman, "Quick! Take the clothes and the horse just as you have suggested and do this for Mordecai the Jew who sits in the king's gate. And don't let anything you've suggested fall through the cracks."

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayDistinctive Clothing

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example],Nor stand in the path of sinners,Nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of scoffers (ridiculers).

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsFeetEvil Waysadvisersevil, believers' responses toMockerySinnersUngodlinessWalkingInfidelity To GodGangsEvil AssociationsWarnings Of Evil AssociationsSitting In FellowshipA Mans CharacterBlessed In ServiceRejoicing Over JusticeScoffersGraduationmockers

Sing [praises] to Yahweh [who] sits [enthroned] in Zion. Tell his deeds among the peoples,

Verse ConceptsPraisePraise, Reasons ForSingingGod's Deed RevealedPraise The Lord With Music!God Lives In Jerusalem

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;In the hiding places he kills the innocent;His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversCharacter Of WickedHelplessnessLooking At People For EvilJudged As Murderersrehabilitation

God will hear and answer them—Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.With whom there is no change,And who do not fear God.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceAfflictions Of The WickedPermanenceGod Is UnchangingNo Fear Of GodPsalm InterjectionsFearing God

The Lord reigns! The nations tremble. He sits enthroned above the winged angels; the earth shakes.

Verse ConceptsPraiseJudgment SeatKingsKingship, DivineKnowing God, Effects OfCherubim, At God's ThroneAwe

Who can compare to the Lord our God, who sits on a high throne?

Verse ConceptsWho Is Like God?

She sits by the doorway of her house,on a seat at the highest point of the city,

A king sits on a throne of justice, sifting out all sorts of evil with his glance.

Verse ConceptsEvil EyesJudgment SeatLeaders, PoliticalSittingThroneWinnowingGood Kings

(The Shulammite Bride)“While the king was at his table,My perfume (Solomon) sent forth [his] fragrance [surrounding me].

How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!

Verse ConceptsFlowersAlcoholWineBeauty, Temporal Nature OfNo BeautyThe Proud Will Be AbasedWoe To Israel And JerusalemWorseNorthern Kingdom Of Israeldrunkards

And that fading flower, his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, will be like an early fig before summer whenever someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it's in his hand.

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarvestNo BeautyWorse

Egypt’s help is completely worthless;therefore, I call her:Rahab Who Just Sits.

Verse ConceptsProtection, Not Found InExterminationNothingUseless Labour

For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfJusticeCommendationGod Is GraciousGod, Justice OfTendernessWaiting On GodLongsuffering Of GodDivine FavourGod WaitingGod Showed MercyGod's InterventionWaiting On The LordWaiting For God's Timingjournaling

He's the one who sits above the disk of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He's the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Verse ConceptsMidgetsCurtainsEarth, Description OfGod, Sovereignty OfInsectsCreation Of The Physical HeavensGod Is TranscendentMan, Insignificance OfGrasshoppersCirclesSmall CreaturesScienceEarthGod Being Outside Of CreationFlat Earth

Half the wood he burns in the fire, and over that half he places meat so he can eat. He sits by its coals, warms himself, and says, "Ah! I am warm in front of the fire."

Verse ConceptsWarmingHalf Of Things

“So now hear this, lover of luxury,who sits securely,who says to herself,‘I exist, and there is no one else.I will never be a widowor know the loss of children.’

Verse ConceptsCarePride, Examples OfWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedPleasure SeekersUnique NationsNo Loss

For the honor of your name, do not treat Jerusalem with contempt. Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it!

and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates.

Verse ConceptsThroneThe Dynasty Of David

"But this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David's throne, and about the people who live in this city your brothers who didn't go with you into exile:

Verse ConceptsThroneThe Dynasty Of David

For thus says Yahweh: 'A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidThroneSaul And DavidThe Dynasty Of DavidGod's Covenant Is Everlasting

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, "There will not be for him [one who] sits on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat in the day and to the frost in the night.

Verse ConceptsHeatFrostNo BurialsThe Dynasty Of David

How she sits alone,the city once crowded with people!She who was great among the nationshas become like a widow.The princess among the provinceshas been put to forced labor.

Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'O Tyre, you have said, "I am perfectly beautiful."

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsEntering CitiesSea DwellersPeople Made Perfect

"Are you any better than Thebes, which sits by the upper Nile, surrounded by water? The sea was her defense, the waters her wall of protection.

Verse ConceptsThings SurroundingFigurative WallsSea Dwellers

Flocks will lie down in her midst, along with animals of every kind. Desert owls and screeching owls will nest at the top of the pillars, hooting through the vacant windows, "Ruin sits at these doorsills,' for he will expose even the cedar framework.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsThings StrippedPelicansHedgehogsCedar Wood

And the men on the horses answered the Angel of the Lord who stood among the myrtle trees and said, “We have gone throughout the earth [patrolling it] and behold, all the earth sits at rest [in peace and free from war].”

Verse ConceptsPatrollingMyrtleTime Of PeaceRestEarth Being Fixed And Immovable

Because who is greater, the one who sits at the table, or the one who serves? It is the one at the table, isn't it? But I'm among you as one who serves.

Verse ConceptsTablesJesus Christ, Meekness OfChrist, Character OfHumility Of ChristReclining To EatServing PeopleServing

God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside [the faith]. Remove the wicked one from among you [expel him from your church].

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toChurch DisciplinePurity, Moral And SpiritualExpulsionExcommunicationRemoving People From Your Life

‘I know where you dwell, [a place] where Satan sits enthroned. Yet you are holding fast to My name, and you did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed (martyred) among you, where Satan dwells.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfMartyrdom, Examples OfSatan, Kingdom OfThroneSatanticThe FaithChrist Knowing About PeopleSubsequent Witness To ChristTribulation MartydomMartyrdomThe Devil

Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Verse ConceptsThanksgivingGod Sitting In GlorySpecific Praising Of God

the 24 elders bow down and worship in front of the one who sits on the throne, the one who lives forever and ever. They throw their victor's crowns in front of the throne and say,

Verse ConceptsSittingGod Sitting In GloryTwenty SomeCrowns For God's PeopleElders In HeavenSpecific Praising Of GodTwenty Four EldersSpiritual crownsThe Elderlyelderscrownsadoration

Then I saw in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the outside, sealed with seven seals.

Verse ConceptsBooksScrollsThroneSevenSeven ThingsInside And OutSealing The MessageGod Sitting In GloryBooks In ProphecyFront And Back

He went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.

Verse ConceptsGod Sitting In GloryBooks In Prophecy

I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and on the sea, and everything that is in them, saying, "To the one who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise, honor, glory, and power forever and ever!"

Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of ChristEarth, God's GloryGod, Present EverywhereHonorUnceasing PraiseChrist's Exalted GloryEternal PraiseGod Sitting In GloryAngels SingingWorship In Heaven During TribulationPetsThe Seaadorationdominionhonour

They cried out in a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb!"

Verse ConceptsGrace, And SalvationSittingThroneGod Sitting In GloryGroups ShoutingPerspective

Then he told me, "These are the people who are coming out of the terrible suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. That is why: "They are in front of the throne of God and worship him night and day in his Temple. The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNightService To GodRest, EternalThe Presence Of ChristGod Sitting In GloryThe Temple In HeavenHeavennot celebrating christmasWorshiping GodServing GodServing The Churchshelterrevelation

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAngels as God's servantsSeven SpiritsSeven ThingsAngels Doing God's WorkThe Great ProstituteVoice Of The ArchangelThe judgment of babylonwhores

Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains, whereon the woman sits.

Verse ConceptsBabylonMind, The HumanWisdom, Human NatureSeven ThingsFalse Religious System

And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsLanguagesAll LanguagesAmericaFalse Religious SystemThe World Rulerwhores

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
συνανάκειμαι 
sunanakeimai 
sit at meat with , sit with , sit together with , sit down with , sit at table with
Usage: 8

ἀνακλίνω 
Anaklino 
Usage: 5

ἀνακεῖμαι 
Anakeimai 
sit at meat , guests , sit , sit down , be set down , lie , lean , at the table
Usage: 10

κάθημαι 
Kathemai 
sit , sit down , sit by , be set down , dwell
Usage: 78

κατακλίνω 
Kataklino 
Usage: 1

ἀναπίπτω 
Anapipto 
sit down , sit down to meat , be set down , lean
Usage: 8

καθίζω 
Kathizo 
sit , sit down , set , be set , be set down , continue , tarry
Usage: 30

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 16

דּגר 
Dagar 
Usage: 2

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

יתב 
Y@thiyb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

משׁב מושׁב 
Mowshab 
Usage: 44

מצק מצוּק 
Matsuwq 
Usage: 2

שׁבת 
Shebeth 
Usage: 3

ἀνακαθίζω 
Anakathizo 
sit up
Usage: 2

ἐπιβαίνω 
Epibaino 
sit , come , go aboard , take 9 , come into , enter into
Usage: 6

καθέζομαι 
Kathezomai 
sit
Usage: 5

κατάκειμαι 
Katakeimai 
lie , sit at meat , keep , sat down
Usage: 11

παρακαθίζω 
Parakathizo 
sit
Usage: 1

συγκάθημαι 
Sugkathemai 
sat Trans , sit with
Usage: 2

συγκαθίζω 
Sugkathizo 
Usage: 2

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