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Lexicon :: Strong's H5944 - ʿălîyâ

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עֲלִיָּה
Transliteration
ʿălîyâ
Pronunciation
al-ee-yaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1624f

Strong’s Definitions

עֲלִיָּה ʻălîyâh, al-ee-yaw'; feminine from H5927; something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky:—ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H5944 in the following manner: chamber (12x), parlour (4x), going up (2x), ascent (1x), loft (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H5944 in the following manner: chamber (12x), parlour (4x), going up (2x), ascent (1x), loft (1x).

  1. roof-room, roof chamber

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲלִיָּה ʻălîyâh, al-ee-yaw'; feminine from H5927; something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky:—ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.
STRONGS H5944: Abbreviations
† עֲלִיָּה noun feminine (with adjective masculine Jeremiah 22:14, compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 83 KöSynt. § 251 k) roof-chamber (Late Hebrew id., Targum עֲלִיתָא, Syriac bdb075101 (whence Arabic bdb075102 dining-room as loan-word Frä20f.); Sabean עלית DHMEpigr. Denkm. 27); — chamber on roof, cool and secluded: absolute ע׳ Judges 3:23, 24, 25 (compare NesMarg. 13), 1 Kings 17:19, 23; 2 Kings 4:11; construct עֲלִיַּת הַמְּקֵרָה Judges 3:20, קִֿיר ע׳ 2 Kings 4:10 roof-chamber with walls (permanent); הַשַּׁעַר ע׳ 2 Samuel 19:1, i.e. over the gateway; הַפִּנּה ע׳ Nehemiah 3:31, 32 i.e. at a corner of the wall; אָחָז ע׳ 2 Kings 23:12 (probably built by A.); suffix עֲלִיָּתוֺ 2 Kings 1:2 (belonging to Ahaziah); — 2 Chronicles 9:4 read עֹלֹתָיו (compare || 1 Kings 10:5); plural absolute עֲלִיּוֺת מְרֻוָּחִים Jeremiah 22:14 spacious roof-chambers; in Solomon's temple according to 2 Chronicles 3:9, so suffix עֲלִיּתָיו 1 Chronicles 28:11; more generally עֲלִיּוֺתָיו Jeremiah 22:13; י׳'s chambers in sky Psalm 104:3, containing rain, Psalm 104:13.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

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

2 Samuel

19:1

1 Kings

10:5; 17:19; 17:23

2 Kings

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

1 Chronicles

28:11

2 Chronicles

3:9; 9:4

Nehemiah

3:31; 3:32

Psalms

104:3; 104:13

Jeremiah

22:13; 22:14; 22:14

H5944

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5944 matches the Hebrew עֲלִיָּה (ʿălîyâ),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his [private] cool upper chamber, and Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And the king got up from his seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the upper chamber behind him, and locked them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 -

When Ehud departed, Eglon’s servants came. And when they saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, they said, “He is only [fn]relieving himself in the cool room.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - They waited [a very long time] until they became embarrassed and uneasy, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. So [finally] they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master had fallen to the floor, dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 -

[fn]The king was deeply moved and went to the upper room over the gate and wept [in sorrow]. And this is what he said as he walked: “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! [fn]How I wish that I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - He said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her arms and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the [lower part of the] house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Ahaziah [the king of Israel] fell through the lattice (grid) in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became sick [from the injury]. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of [fn]Ekron, if I will recover from this sickness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - “Please, let us make a small, fully-walled upper room [on the housetop] and put a bed there for him, with a table, a chair, and a lampstand. Then whenever he comes to visit us, he can turn in there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11 -

One day he came there and turned in to the upper room and lay down to rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The altars [dedicated to the starry host of heaven] which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD, the king tore down; and he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11 -

Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan for the porch of the temple, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner rooms, and for the place for the [ark and its] mercy seat;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9 - The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - and the food of his table, the [vast] seating order of his officials, the attendance and service of his ministers and their attire, his cupbearers and their attire, and his [fn]stairway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, she was breathless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31 - After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, carried out repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, in front of the [fn]Inspection Gate and as far as the upper room of the corner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:32 - Between the upper room of the corner and [fn]the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and merchants carried out repairs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 -

Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament],

Who makes the clouds His chariot,

Who walks on the wings of the wind,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 -

He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

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“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds his house by [acts of] unrighteousness

And his upper chambers by injustice,

Who uses his neighbor’s service without pay

And does not give him wages [for his work],

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:14

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Who says, ‘I will build myself a spacious house

With large upper rooms,

And cut out its [wide] windows,

And panel it with cedar and paint it vermilion.’

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