H5944 עֲלִיָּה (ʻălîyâh) al-ee-yaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

upper room

Strong's Definition

something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky

Derivation: feminine from H5927 (עָלָה);

KJV Usage: ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.

TWOT Reference: 1624f

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) roof-room, roof chamber

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1574

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עֲלִיָּה (a.liy.yah) — upper room. roof-room, roof chamber

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עֲלִיָּה (H5944)

noun f · עלה

Buildings

upper room, roof chamber = a room built on the roof of a house or city wall, ► where it is usually relatively cool in the hot season as a result of the breeze

JDG 3:20 · JDG 3:23 · JDG 3:24 · JDG 3:25 · 2SA 19:1 · 1KI 17:19 · 1KI 17:23 · 2KI 1:2 · 2KI 4:10 · 2KI 4:11 · 2KI 23:12 · 1CH 28:11 · 2CH 3:9 · NEH 3:31 · NEH 3:32 · PSA 104:3 · PSA 104:13 · JER 22:13 · JER 22:14

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עֲלִיָּה n.f. roof-chamber base

Bible Occurrences (20)

3:20 3:23 3:24 3:25

18:33

17:19 17:23

1:2 4:10 4:11 23:12

28:11

3:9 9:4

3:31 3:32

104:3 104:13

22:13 22:14

Judges 3:20

Then Ehud approached him... while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room -. I have a word from God for you, Ehud said, and the king rose from [his] seat.

Judges 3:23

Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

Judges 3:24

After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked.... He must be relieving himself... in the cool room, they said.

Judges 3:25

So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened [the doors]— and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only... I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!

1 Kings 17:19

But Elijah said to her, Give me your son. So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying,... and laid him on his own bed.

1 Kings 17:23

Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Look, your son is alive, Elijah declared.

2 Kings 1:2

Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them:... Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.