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If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
Read in context →And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Read in context →7 occurrences in 7 verses.
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These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
káthēmai · kath'-ay-mahee
and ἧμαι (to sit; akin to the base of G1476); to sit down; figuratively, to remain, reside
Strong's KJV usage: :--dwell, sit (by, down).
Strong's first: Matthew 9:9Strong's last: Revelation 4:4
Open full G2521 profile →yâshab · yaw-shab'
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Strong's KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, × marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Strong's first: Judges 3:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 38:7
Open full H3427 profile →kathézomai · kath-ed'-zom-ahee
to sit down
Strong's KJV usage: :--sit.
Strong's first: Luke 2:46Strong's last: John 20:12
Open full G2516 profile →môwshâb · mo-shawb'
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.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 9:4
Open full H4186 profile →epibaínō · ep-ee-bah'-ee-no
to walk upon, i.e. mount, ascend, embark, arrive
Strong's KJV usage: :--come (into), enter into, go abroad, sit upon, take ship.
Strong's first: Matthew 21:5Strong's last: Matthew 21:5
Open full G1910 profile →kathízō · kath-id'-zo
to seat down, i.e. set (figuratively, appoint); intransitively, to sit (down); figuratively, to settle (hover, dwell)
Strong's KJV usage: :--continue, set, sit (down), tarry.
Strong's first: Acts 25:6Strong's last: Acts 25:6
Open full G2523 profile →râbats · raw-bats'
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Strong's KJV usage: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 22:6Strong's last: Deuteronomy 22:6
Open full H7257 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
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SIT'TING, participle present tense
1. Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.
2. adjective In botany, sessile.
SIT'TING, noun
1. The posture of being on a seat.
2. The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.
3. The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness. For a portrait, six or seven sittings may be required.
4. A session; the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; as a sitting of the judges of the king's bench; a sitting of the house of commons; during the sitting of the supreme court.
5. An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted. For the understanding of any one of Paul's epistles, I read it through at one sitting
6. A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.
7. Incubation; a resting on eggs for hatching; as fowls. The male bird amuses the female with his songs, during the whole time of her sitting
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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