עֲלִיָּה

a.liy.yah · upper room

Hebrew · Strong's H5944 · Noun · Sounds like: al-ee-yaw' · 20 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

feminine from עָלָה; 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.

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עֲלִיָּה n.f. roof-chamber

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Kings 1:2 בַּעֲלִיָּת֛וֹ ba.'a.li.ya.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.

  2. 2 Kings 4:10 עֲלִיַּת־ 'a.li.yat- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

  3. 2 Kings 4:11 הָעֲלִיָּ֖ה ha.'a.li.Yah · A person, place or thing

    And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.

  4. 2 Kings 23:12 עֲלִיַּ֨ת 'a.li.Yat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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