[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/seat.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / seat [← S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/S/) # seat «seat» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **something to sit on, like a chair, a bench or a place on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun, verb (seat, seats, seated, seating) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A seat is something to sit on, like a chair, a bench or a place on a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#m1) 2) A seat is a place where one person can sit in a theatre, plane or classroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#m2) 3) To seat someone is to give them a place to sit or to show them where to sit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#m3) 4) A table or room that seats 6 has room for 6 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#m4) 5) A seat is also a place in a parliament or council won in an election. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#m5) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it means God sitting on a throne. In Job and the psalms it means God's dwelling or throne, and "seat of wickedness" means a place where evil rules. Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah tells the student to study the numbers and pass from them to the Creator on his throne, which is a picture of God's rule over the world. Job's wish to reach God's seat is read as the longing to understand God's ways. In the primary lessons: In maths seats are places counted: seats in rows, on a bus or in a theatre; empty and full seats; how many people a table seats. In everyday life: take a seat, save a seat, fasten your seat belt, the front seat, the back seat, car seat for babies. In stories: «Please be seated» is a polite way to say «sit down». ### examples - And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. — (Torah NUM.21.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x1) - Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x2) - Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute? (Writings PSA.94.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x3) - Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat! (Writings JOB.23.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x4) - Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; (Prophets AMO.6.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x5) - A bus has 40 seats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x6) - The hall has 12 rows of 20 seats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x7) - 35 seats are taken; how many are empty? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x8) - Each table seats 6 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x9) - Please take a seat and wait for your name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x10) - Small children must ride in a car seat in the back seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x11) - Can you save me a seat next to you at lunch? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x12) - The guests were seated at long tables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x13) - Fasten your seat belt before the car moves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x14) - The fool took his seat and drove off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/#x15) ### note Countable: a seat, seats. «Seat» as a verb usually takes a person (seat the guests) or a number (seats 6). Rows × seats per row = all seats; seats taken + empty = all. «Seats 6» is a capacity. Trap: if people do not fit, you need one more table or bus (round up). Do not confuse seat with «sit» (the action) or «set» (to put). ### In the corpora - [And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.770/) - [And Ehud said: 'I have a message from God unto thee.' And he arose out of his seat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.82/) - [Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.97/) - [Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1696/) - [Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1986/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «seat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.