TBESH · H5944
עֲלִיָּה · a.liy.yah · upper room
roof-room, roof chamber
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a.liy.yah H5944
עֲלִיָּה (a.liy.yah) means “upper room” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עֲלִיָּה Hebrew · H5944 20 tagged occurrences in 20 verses
Pronunciation guide: al-ee-yaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
feminine from H5927 (עָלָה); something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky
KJV glosses: ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.
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How translators render H5944
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the upper room | 3 |
| the upper room | 3 |
| his upper room | 2 |
| upper rooms | 2 |
| and his upper rooms | 1 |
| and the burnt offerings | 1 |
| far as the upper room | 1 |
| from his chambers | 1 |
| near the upper chamber | 1 |
| of his chambers | 1 |
| of his upper room | 1 |
| room upstairs | 1 |
| the upper rooms | 1 |
| to the chamber | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the parlour | 3 |
| and between the going up | 1 |
| and his ascent | 1 |
| and his chambers | 1 |
| and to the going up | 1 |
| chamber | 1 |
| chambers | 1 |
| from his chambers | 1 |
| in his upper chamber | 1 |
| into a loft | 1 |
| into the chamber | 1 |
| of his chambers | 1 |
| of the upper chamber | 1 |
| out of the chamber | 1 |
| parlour | 1 |
| the upper chambers | 1 |
| thereof and of the upper chambers | 1 |
| to the chamber | 1 |
Verses containing H5944
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- Judges 3:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.
Read word by word - Judges 3:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.
Read word by word - Judges 3:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.
Read word by word - Judges 3:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 18:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
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- 1 Kings 17:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 17:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 3:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 9:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, the attire of his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 3:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Next to him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room above the corner.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 3:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And between the upper room above the corner and the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and merchants made repairs.
Read word by word - Psalms 104:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
Read word by word - Psalms 104:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 22:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 22:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
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