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# sitting

verb form (-ing form of sit: sit, sits, sat, sitting); noun (a sitting, sittings); adjective (sitting room)

«sitting» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Sitting means resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another seat, with your back up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#m1)
2. Sitting can mean staying in a place or position: the book was sitting on the shelf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#m3)

### In the 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

- The children were sitting on the carpet for the story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x1)
- Please stay sitting while the bus is moving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x2)
- My cat is sitting on the window sill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x3)
- I read the whole book at one sitting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x4)
- We were sitting by the campfire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x5)
- Sitting for hours in front of a screen is not healthy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x6)
- The keys were sitting on the table the whole time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x7)
- She is babysitting her little cousin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x8)
- ‘Who’s been sitting on my little chair?’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/#x9)

### 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 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.

### 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://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/#x4)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sitting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sitting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sitting.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «sitting» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sitting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sitting» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sitting.html) on Mova free.