Reference: Room
American
Is sometimes synonymous with seat or place, as in Lu 14:8-10; 20:46.
See Verses Found in Dictionary
"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. read more. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
Fausets
In Mt 23:6; Mr 12:39; Lu 14:7-8; 20:46, not in our sense, but "place at table". Expressed in Lu 11:43 "uppermost". (See REHOBOTH.)
See Verses Found in Dictionary
And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
So he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noted how they chose the places of honor, saying to them: "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him;
"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
Hastings
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Smith
Room.
The references to "room" in
Mt 23:6; Mr 12:39; Lu 14:7-8; 20:46
signify the highest place on the highest couch round the dinner or supper table --the "uppermost seat", as it is more accurately rendered in
Lu 11:43
See Verses Found in Dictionary
And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
So he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noted how they chose the places of honor, saying to them: "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him;
"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,