Exodus 25:17
And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
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Seat
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Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
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17 occurrences in 16 verses.
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Exodus
1716 verses
Leviticus
74 verses
Numbers
11 verses
Judges
11 verses
1 Samuel
65 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
22 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Esther
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Amos
11 verses
Matthew
22 verses
John
11 verses
Acts
66 verses
Romans
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Revelation
33 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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כַּפֹּרֶת
kappôreth · kap-po'-reth
25 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
Strong's KJV usage: mercy seat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 25:17Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 28:11
Open full H3727 profile →βῆμα
bēma · bay'-ma
10 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a step, i.e. foot-breath; by implication, a rostrum, i.e. a tribunal
Strong's KJV usage: :--judgment-seat, set (foot) on, throne.
Strong's first: Matthew 27:19Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 5:10
Open full G968 profile →כִּסֵּא
kiççêʼ · kis-say'
7 times translated as this KJV form135 total Strong's occurrences
properly, covered, i.e. a throne (as canopied)
Strong's KJV usage: seat, stool, throne.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 3:20Strong's last: Proverbs 9:14
Open full H3678 profile →מוֹשָׁב
môwshâb · mo-shawb'
7 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication, population
Strong's KJV usage: assembly, dwell in, dwelling(-place), wherein (that) dwelt (in), inhabited place, seat, sitting, situation, sojourning.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 20:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 28:2
Open full H4186 profile →θρόνος
thrónos · thron'-os
3 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
a stately seat ("throne"); by implication, power or (concretely) a potentate
Strong's KJV usage: :--seat, throne.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 2:13Strong's last: Revelation 16:10
Open full G2362 profile →שֶׁבֶת
shebeth · sheh'-beth
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
properly, session; but used also concretely, an abode or locality
Strong's KJV usage: place, seat. Compare 3429.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 23:8Strong's last: Amos 6:3
Open full H7675 profile →καθέδρα
kathédra · kath-ed'-rah
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a bench (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--seat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 23:2Strong's last: Matthew 23:2
Open full G2515 profile →תְּכוּנָה
tᵉkûwnâh · tek-oo-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
something arranged or fixed, i.e. a place
Strong's KJV usage: seat.
Strong's first: Job 23:3Strong's last: Job 23:3
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H3678
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
H3678
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
H3678
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
H4186
Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
H4186
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
H4186
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
English meaning and historical usage.
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seat
SEAT, noun [L. sedes, situs.]
1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.
Christ--overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves. Matthew 21:12.
2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.
3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul.
In Albe he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden.
4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.
5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.
6. In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.
7. A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.
8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses, the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.
SEAT, verb transitive
1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests.
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
Arbuthnot.
2. To place in a post of authority, in office or a place of distinction. He seated his son in the professor's chair.
Then high was king Richard seated. Shak.
3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country. A colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy; another at Massilia in Gaul.
4. To fix; to set firm.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills. Milton.
5. To place in a chruch; to assign seats to. In New England, where the pews in churches are not private property, it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.
6. To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.
7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.
8. 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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