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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.
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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 - And Ehud came to him; now he was sitting in the cool upper-chamber, which was for him alone. And Ehud said, I have a word from God unto thee. And he arose from the seat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - And Ehud went out into the portico, and shut the doors of the upper-chamber upon him, and bolted them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - And when he was gone out, the servants of the king came and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper-chamber were bolted. And they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the summer chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - And they waited till they were ashamed; and behold, he opened not the doors of the upper-chamber, and they took the key, and opened them, and behold, their lord lay dead on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the upper chamber of the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said thus: O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died in thy stead, O Absalom, my son, my son!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - Let us make, I pray thee, a small upper chamber with walls, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand; and it shall be when he cometh to us, he shall turn in thither.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11 - And it came to pass on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the upper chamber, and lay there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, and he shattered them, removing them from thence, and cast the powder of them into the torrent of Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11 - And David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of its upper chambers, and of its inner chambers, and of the house of the mercy-seat;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9 - And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers with gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his attendants and their apparel, and his cupbearers and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31 - After him repaired Malchijah of the goldsmiths to the place of the Nethinim and of the dealers, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:32 - And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep-gate repaired the goldsmiths and the dealers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his earning;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:14 - that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himself windows; and it is wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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