[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sitting.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/) / sitting [← S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/S/) # sitting «sitting» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another…** — 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 verb form (-ing form of sit: sit, sits, sat, sitting); noun (a sitting, sittings); adjective (sitting room) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Sitting means resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another seat, with your back up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#m1) 2) Sitting can mean staying in a place or position: the book was sitting on the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#m2) 3) A sitting is one of the times when a meal is served to a group, or one session of doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh sitting also means staying in a place, such as David's men hiding in a cave or Ehud's king in his cool chamber. "Sitting down and rising up" is a way of saying everything a person does. Interpretation: The tradition reads "their sitting down and their rising up" in Lamentations as God watching all the actions of the people, even when enemies mock them. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and school: «sitting still», «sitting on the carpet», «sitting in your seat with your seat belt on». In health lessons, sitting too long is not good; get up and move. In stories «sitting» sets the scene (sitting by the fire). In the UK a «sitting room» is a living room. Phrases: sit down, sitting up, sitting still, sitting room, at one sitting, babysitting. ### examples - Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying: (Torah GEN.23.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x1) - Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. (Writings LAM.3.63, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x2) - Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave. (Prophets 1SA.24.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x3) - And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. (Prophets JDG.3.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x4) - The children were sitting on the carpet for the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x5) - Please stay sitting while the bus is moving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x6) - My cat is sitting on the window sill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x7) - I read the whole book at one sitting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x8) - We were sitting by the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x9) - Sitting for hours in front of a screen is not healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x10) - The keys were sitting on the table the whole time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x11) - She is babysitting her little cousin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x12) - ‘Who’s been sitting on my little chair?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x13) ### note Double the «t»: sit → sitting. Past: sat. «Sitting» (on a seat) and «setting» (put something down, or the place of a story) are different words. «Seated» is the more formal word. ### In the corpora - [And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.81/) - [Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.699/) - [But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.618/) - [But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.791/) - [Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month; and the brazier was burning before him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1010/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «sitting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.