Seat
מוֹשָׁבStrong’s H4186moshav (mo-shav)
Appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moshav is the Hebrew word usually translated “dwelling places your”, “dwelling places their” and “dwelling”. It appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament.
“And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.”
Meaning
- Seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellersseat, sitting, those sitting, sitting company or assembly · dwelling place, dwelling · situation, location · time of dwelling · those dwelling, dweller
How it's translated
- dwelling places your 11
- dwelling places their 4
- dwelling 3
- dwelling your 2
- in dwelling places their 2
- seat of 2
- and seating of 2
- location of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Ezekiel 7
- Psalms 6
- Exodus 4
- Numbers 4
- Genesis 3
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
- Genesis 36:43Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
- Exodus 10:23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
- Exodus 12:20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
- Exodus 12:40Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
- Exodus 35:3Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
All 43 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹשָׁב moshav · seat
1) seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellers 1a) seat, sitting, those sitting, sitting company or assembly 1b) dwelling place, dwelling 1c) situation, location 1d) time of dwelling 1e) those dwelling, dweller
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEAT, noun
[L. sedes, situs.]
- That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.
- The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.
- Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire.
- Site; situation.
All definitions and other forms of “seat”
- That part of a saddle on which a person sits.
- In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.
- A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.
- The place where a thing is settled or established.
SEAT, verb transitive
- To place on a seat; to cause to sit down.
- To place in a post of authority, in office or a place of distinction.
- To settle; to fix in a particular place or country.
- To fix; to set firm.
- To place in a chruch; to assign seats to.
- To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.
- To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. [Not used much.]
SEAT, verb intransitive
To rest; to lie down. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.