1. throne, seat of authority — A throne or seat of royal/divine authority, denoting both the physical seat and the power or sovereignty it represents. Overwhelmingly used in the NT for God's throne or Christ's throne (especially in Revelation), also of the thrones of earthly rulers and of the twenty-four elders. The two clusters differ only in number: singular 'throne' (55x) vs plural 'thrones' (8x). Multilingual evidence is uniform: spa 'trono / tronos', hin 'singhasan / singhasanon', arb 'al-arsh / urush', kor 'bwajwa / bwajwa-deul', swa 'kiti cha enzi / viti vya enzi'. The plural denotes multiple thrones (e.g., Col 1:16 cosmic thrones, Rev 20:4 judgment thrones) but the core sense of a seat of ruling authority is identical. 63×
AR["العَرْشِ","عَرشِ","عَرْش","عَرْشي","عَرْشٌ","عَرْشَ","عَرْشُ","عَرْشُكَ","عَرْشِ","عَرْشِهِ"]·ben["সিংহাসন","সিংহাসনে","সিংহাসনের","সিংহাসনের,"]·DE["Thron"]·EN["a-throne","throne"]·FR["trône"]·heb["כִּסֵּא"]·HI["सिंहासन","सिंहासन,","सिंहासन-के","सिनहअसन"]·ID["takhta","takhta,"]·IT["trono"]·jav["dhampar","dhampar,"]·KO["그-의","보좌","보좌-가","보좌-의","보좌-이다","보좌가","보좌에","보좌의","왕좌-를"]·PT["trono"]·RU["престол","престола","престола,","престоле","престолом","престолу"]·ES["trono"]·SW["Kiti-cha-enzi","cha-","cha-utukufu","kiti-cha-enzi","kiti-cha-enzi,","kiti-chake-cha-enzi","kiti-changu-cha-enzi"]·TR["O'nun","benim","ihtiyarlar","taht","tahttan","tahtı","tahtıdır","tahtın","tahtına","tahtında","tahtını","tahtının","tahtıyla"]·urd["تخت","تخت-سے","تخت-پر","تخت-کے"]
Matt 5:34, Matt 19:28, Matt 23:22, Matt 25:31, Luke 1:32, Acts 2:30, Acts 7:49, Heb 1:8, Heb 4:16, Heb 8:1, Heb 12:2, Rev 1:4 (+38 more)
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θρόνος, ὁ, seat, chair, Refs 8th c.BC+ __2 throne, chair of state, θ. βασιλήϊος Refs 5th c.BC+; king's estate or dignity, σκῆπτρα καὶ θρόνους Refs 5th c.BC+; in the Prytaneum, τῷ [Ἀπόλλωνι] θ. ἐξελεῖν Refs __3 oracular seat of Apollo, Refs 5th c.BC+; μαντικοὶ θ. Refs 4th c.BC+ __4 chair of a teacher, Refs 5th c.BC+ __5 judge's bench, Refs 1st c.AD+ __6 Astrology texts,= ὕψωμα, Refs __6.b…