- מושב
- מוֹשָׁבm. (b. h.; יָשַׁב) seat, sitting. Y.Ber.IX, 13a top מוֹשָׁבוֹ בקדושה His sitting (in judgment) is in holiness (with ref to Ps. 47:9). Meg.IV, 3 (23b) מעמד ומ׳ the ceremony of rising and sitting down at funerals; a. fr.מוֹשַׁב לצים, v. לֵץ.Esp. (טומאת) מ׳ the uncleanness caused by an unclean mans sitting, the unclean seat (Lev. 15:4). Kel. I, 5 מטמא משכב ומ׳ causes uncleanness of couch and seat; Zab. I, 1; a. fr.Ḥull.124a מוֹשַׁב זב the privy chair of one afflicted with gonorrhoea; Ar. reads: מושבזג, משבזג, ‘a leather seat of a folding chair, v. זוּג.Pl. מוֹשָׁבוֹת. Lev. R. s. 1; Tanḥ. Vayikra 1 (ref. to Prov. 25:7) רחק מן מקומך מ׳וכ׳ keep removed from thy place two or three seats (behind that which is due to thy position), that they may say to thee, go up.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.