Seat
שֶׁ֫בֶתStrong’s H7675shevet (she-vet)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shevet is the Hebrew word usually translated “sitting”, “at the dwelling” and “sitting their”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.”
Meaning
- (Qal) seat, dwelling, place
How it's translated
- the sitting 2
- at the dwelling 1
- sitting their 1
- a seat of 1
- dwelling his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Lamentations 1
- Amos 1
- Obadiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 10:19The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
- 2 Chronicles 9:18And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
- Lamentations 3:63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
- Amos 6:3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- Obadiah 1:3The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫בֶת shevet · seat
(Qal) seat, dwelling, place
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.