Quick Definition
δῶμα, ατος, τό n.n. the top of the house
Strong's Definition
from demo (to build); properly, an edifice, i.e. (specially) a roof
KJV Usage: housetop
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | ἐνδώμησις · ἐποικοδομέω · οἰκοδομέω · οἰκοδομή · οἰκοδόμος · συνοικοδομέω
7.51 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
housetop the area on the top of a flat-roof house The phrase κηρύξατε ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων ‘proclaim from the housetops’ (MAT 10:27) is an idiom meaning ‘to proclaim publicly’ (see 28.64). See 7.50 for comments relating to translational problems.
MAT 10:27 · MAT 24:17 · MRK 13:15 · LUK 5:19 · LUK 12:3 · LUK 17:31 · ACT 10:9
1 It is very possible that the two idioms in 28.64 differ somewhat in meaning, or at least in connotation, but it is difficult, if not impossible, to show this from existing contexts.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δῶμα, -τος, τό, (δέμω to build) ; 1. a building, house, (Hom. et sqq-). 2. a part of a building, dining-room, hall, (Hom. et sqq.). 3. in the Script. equiv. to 23, house-top, roof [W. 23]: Mt.xxiv. 17; Mk. xiii. 15; Lk. ν. 19; xvii. 81. The house-tops of the Orientals were (and still are) level, and were frequented not only for walking but also for meditation and prayer: Acts x. 9; hence ἐπὶ δωμάτων, on the house-tops, i. 6. in public: Mt. x. 27; Lk. xii. 3; ἐπὶ τὸ δῶμα... . κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς παντὸς Ἰσραήλ, 2 5. xvi. 22.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
δῶμα dōma 7x
pr. a house; synec. a roof, Mt. 10:27; 24:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δῶμα, -τος, τό
(< δέμω, to build), [in LXX for גָּג ;]
chiefly in poets and late (not Attic) prose;
a house, hall.
In LXX (and Hom., Od., x, 554; cf. MGr., terrace), house-top: ἐπὶ τ. δῶμα, Lk 5:19, Ac 10:9; ἐπὶ τ. δώματος, -άτων, Mt 10:27 24:17, Mk 13:15, Lk 12:3 17:31.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
δῶμα. In P Oxy IIT. 4753 (a.p. 182) βουληθεὶς ἀπὸ τοῦ δώματος τῆς αὐτῆς οἰκίας παρακύψαι καὶ θεάσασθαι τὰς [κρο]ταλιστρίδας --οἵ a young slave who was killed in trying to see a performance of castanet players in the street below—8apa. is clearly to be understood as “ the top of the house,”? whether a top room or the flat roof as in Mk 13! etc. Cf. P Strass I. 147? (ΛΑ... 211) ἐΐν ἀπρ[άτῳ δώματι ἐν τῇ λαύρᾳ τῶν ἸΤοιμένων, where the editor renders ‘‘auf einem unverkauflichen flachen Dache in der Hirtenstrasse,” and the late P Flor I. 135 (vi/vii A.D.) ta[s] αὐλῆς καὶ to (/. τοῦ) δώματος, ‘della terrazza sul tetto della casa” (Vitelli). The note on this last passage quotes Babrius 5°, of a cock which εἰς τὸ δῶμα πηδήσας ἐπικροτῶν τε τοῖς πτεροῖς ἐκεκράγει. Add P Tebt I. 12313»18 (early i/B.c.), 241 verso (B.C. 74) ἔχωι ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος. In P Petr I. 261° (B.c. 241) ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων, the context is fragmentary, but the editor understands it of difficulties attending the arrangements of new ‘‘homesteads”*in the Fayim. We have the word twice in a Petrograd ostracon, no. 34°*, published by Zereteli in Archiv v. p. 179, τὸ ξύλον τὸ [μυρίϊκινον τὸ ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ, ἂν χρήζῃς, [εἰς τὰ δ]ώματα λαβὲ καὶ ενιυλια, ἂν χρήϊζῃς. ἐκ τοῦ δώματος] λαβέ : the editor prints x ?]épata, but Wilcken emends. In P Ryl II 233% (ii/A.D.) ὅταν δὲ ἐπ’ ἀγαθῷ ἐκβῶμεν καὶ τὸ δῶμα ἀσφαλισθήσεται ἴ5 rendered by the edd. ““but when established.” minding. us distantly of the great pass (iii. 894 ff.) which Gray imitated in the Zlegy, has the lines κοὐκέτι σοι φάος ἠελίοιο, οὐδὲ τὰ κλεινὰ δὲ δώματα Ῥώμης, οὔδ᾽ ἄλοχος (= husband), οὔτε φίλη κασιγνήτη. Ilere again the meaning is owse, which has only shrunk into γσολὶ in Μααν. we reach a fortunate issue and the house is A rather striking epitaph, Awzbe/ 720, rein Lucretius xe
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
δῶμα (dōma) — housetop. δῶμα, ατος, τό, (δέμω) house, πατρώϊον ἵκετο δ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; mainly poetry, but once in [Refs 5th c.BC+], but never in Attic dialect Prose: also, chief room, hall, θάλαμον καὶ δ. καὶ αὐλήν [Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, plural for a single house, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. of the gods, ἀθάνατοι Ὀλύμπια δώματ᾽ ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently of Pluto, δῶμ᾽ Ἀΐδαο the nether world, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a temple, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. δῶμα Καδμεῖον, i.e. Thebes, [Refs]
4. housetop, [LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+]
II. household, family, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare δῶ.