SEASONS (Wens). See PALESTINE.
SEAT (set).
1. Kis-say' (Heb. covered), a throne, as usually rendered, but also any seat occupied by a king (Judg. I, or other distinguished person, as the high-priest (I Sam. i :9 ; iv :13, 18), the king's mother (1 Kings ii:t9), prime minister (Esth. iii:1).
2. Ilfo-shawb' (Hob. abode, a scat (t Sam. xx:18,25; Job xxix:7); a silting, i.c.,assem bly of persons sitting together (Ps. ia); the site of an image (Ezek.viii:3).
3. Thron'os (Gr. Op6pos), used figuratively for kingly power (Luke i:52); of Satan (Rev. i1:13; xiii :2; XVi :I0;) of the Elders (iv:4; xi:16). (See ELDER.) 4. (Heb. arranged, a place, dwelling (Job xxiii:3).
5. In the New Testament we have Gr. bay'ma, of the "judgment seat" (Matt. xxvii :to; John xix :13 ; Acts xviii :12, 16, 17; xxv :6, to, 17) ; of Christ (Rom. :ay :to; 2 Cor. v:io) ; kath-ed'rah in the usual sense of place (Matt. xxi:12; Mark xi:15); but generally of the exalted seat occupied by men of eminent rank or influence.
6. "The uppermost seats" (Luke xi:43), "high est" (xx :46), is the rendering of Gr. (pro-tok atit-ed-ree'ah), the first or principal seats, and means preeminent in council. (McC. & Str. and Barnes, Bib. Cyc.) Figurative. (I) Moses' seat is the station of civil power and authority among the Jews, and of judging according to Moses' law (Matt. xxiii :2).
(2) Satan's seat is the place where he has great power and authority (Rev. ii :13). (3) The seat of the dragon, or of heathenish power, and of Antichrist, was heathen Rome, where his authority was established (Rev. xiii :2, and xvi :to). (4) The seat of violence comes nigh when mcn hold courts, or exercise their authority, to commit in justice and oppression (Amos vi :3). (5) To sit in the seat of the scornful is to have an habitual and fixed intimacy with them, and to act after their manner with pleasure (Ps. i:t). "I sit in the seat of God" (Ezek. xxviii :2), the language ascribed to the prince of Tyre, is that of pride. "The Tyr ian state was the production and seat of its gods. He, the prince of Tyre, presided over this divine creation and divine seat ; therefore he, the prince, was himself a god, a manifestation of the deity, having its work and home in the state of Tyre" (Kliefoth).
SEBA (se'ba), (Heb. seb-aw', saba).
1. The oldest son of Cush (Gen. x:7), B. C. afbout 2500.
2. The name of a people (Ps. lxxii:io; Is. xliii :3). (See SABEANS.)