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Lexicon :: Strong's H5944 - ʿălîyâ

Aa
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 BoxJdg 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 - Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - So let us make a little room on the wall; and put a bed there for him, and a table and a seat and a light; so that when he comes to us, he will be able to go in there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11 - Now one day, when he had gone there, he went into the little room and took his rest there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11 - Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9 - And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31 - After him Malchijah, one of the gold-workers to the Nethinim and the traders, made good the wall opposite the doorway of Hammiphkad and as far as the way up to the angle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:32 - And between the way up to the angle and the sheep door, the gold-workers and the traders made good the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:14 - Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
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