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SIT, pret. sat old pp. sitten L. sedeo.
1. To rest upon the buttocks, as animals as, to sit on a sofa or on the ground.
2. To perch to rest on the feet as fowls.
3. To occupy a seat or place in an official capacity. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Matt. 23.
4. To be in a state of rest or idleness. Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Num. 32.
5. To rest, lie or bear on, as a weight or burned as, grief sits heavy on his heart.
6. To settle to rest to abide. Pale horror sat on each Arcadian face.
7. To incubate to cover and warm eggs for hatching as a fowl. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not- Jer. 17.
8. To be adjusted to be, with respect to fitness or unfitness as, a coat sits well or This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, sits not so easy on me as you think.
9. To be placed in order to be painted as, to sit for one's picture.
10. To be in any situation or condition. Suppose all the church lands to be thrown up to the laity would the tenants sit easier in their rents than now?
11. To hold a session to be officially engaged in public business as judges, legislators or officers of any kind. The house of commons sometimes sits till late at night. The judges or the courts sit in Westminster hall. The commissioners sit every day.
12. To exercise authority as, to sit in judgment. One council sits upon life and death.
13. To be in any assembly or council as a member to have a seat.
14. To be in a local position. The wind sits fair. Unusual
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Sit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sit.html.
Entry for 'Sit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sit.html.
