קְתִדְרָא, (καθέδρα) a soft seat, chair with back. Keth. V, 5 ארבע יושבת בק׳ (not ארבעה) if the wife brought four maids, she may sit in the chair (need not do any house work). Ib. 61ᵃ. Kel. IV, 3 כמין ק׳ (Mish. ed. רָה …) in the shape of a cathedra (with a curved or hollow back). Ib. XXIV, 2 העשויה כק׳ a wagon seat formed like a cathedra. Lam. R. to I, 1 ק׳ (רבתי) בכל מקום … מציעין לו wherever one of the sons of Jerusalem came to a country place, they spread for him a cathedra to sit on it, in order to hear his wisdom. Pesik. Vayḥi, p. 7ᵇ (ref. to I Kings X, 19) כהדא ק׳ דמשה like the seat of Moses (v. Revue des Ét. Juives XXXIV, p. 99, sq.); Esth. R. to I, 2 קדירתא דדרניש (read: קתידרא); Ex. R. s. 43 ק׳ עשו לו כק׳ וכ׳ they made for him (Moses) a seat like the scholars’ cathedra in which one sits and yet seems to be standing; a. e.—Pl. קְתִדְראוֹת, קְתִדְרָיוֹת, קְתִיד׳. Y. Succ. V, beg. 55ᵃ ושבעים ק׳ וכ׳ seventy gilt chairs were there (in the synagogue of Alexandria), beset with precious stones &c.; Bab. Succ. 51ᵇ; Tosef. ib. IV, 6 שבעים ואחת ק׳. Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵈ top; a. e.