Roof
עֲלִיStrong’s H5952allit (al-lit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Allit is the Aramaic word usually translated “upper room his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Meaning
- Roof-room, roof chamber
How it's translated
- in upper room his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
עֲלִי allit · roof
roof-room, roof chamber
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roof” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROOF, noun
- The cover or upper part of a house or other building, consisting of rafters covered with boards, shingles or tiles, with a side or sides sloping from the ridge, for the purpose of carrying off the water that falls in rain or snow.
- A vault; an arch; or the interior of a vault; as the roof of heaven.
- The vault of the mouth; the upper part of the mouth; the palate.“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth” Psalms 137:6
All definitions and other forms of “roof”
ROOF, verb transitive
- To cover with a roof
- To inclose in a house; to shelter.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.