Upper room
עֲלִיָּהStrong’s H5944aliyyah (a-liy-yah)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aliyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “roof chamber”, “upper room” and “upper room of”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.”
Meaning
- Roof-room, roof chamber
How it's translated
- the roof chamber 3
- the upper room 3
- upper room of 2
- roof-chamber of 2
- in roof chamber of 1
- in upper room his 1
- an upper room of 1
- and upper rooms its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- 2 Kings 4
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Psalms 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 3:23Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
- Judges 3:24When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
- Judges 3:25And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
- 2 Samuel 18:33And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
- 1 Kings 17:19And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
- 1 Kings 17:23And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲלִיָּה aliyyah · upper room
roof-room, roof chamber
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.