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Room
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
  ROOM . See House, §  2 . For the ‘upper room,’ see  ib. §  5 , and for the now obsolete use of ‘room’ in the sense of place at table, as ‘the chief room’ ( Luke 14:7 ), the ‘highest room’ (v. 8 RV [Note: Revised Version.] in both cases ‘chief seat’), or ‘the uppermost room’ ( Matthew 23:6 ,  Mark 12:39 , RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘chief place’), see Meals, §  6 .
 A. R. S. Kennedy.
 
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Room'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​r/room.html. 1909.