Jastrow: מוֹשָׁב

מוֹשָׁב m. (b. h.; יָשַׁב) seat, sitting. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵃ top מוֹשָׁבוֹ בקדושה His sitting (in judgment) is in holiness (with ref. to Ps. XLVII, 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 man’s sitting, the unclean seat (Lev. XV, 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. XXV, 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.