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# עֲלִי

Biblical Aramaic

**roof-chamber** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

roof-chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5dc_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִלִּי: n.f. roof-chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5dc_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. roof-chamber (cf. Dr; BH עֲלִיָּה);—sf. עִלִּיתֵהּ Dn 6:11.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his upper (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.11/#tree)

וְ֠דָנִיֵּאל כְּדִ֨י יְדַ֜ע דִּֽי־רְשִׁ֤ים כְּתָבָא֙ עַ֣ל לְבַיְתֵ֔הּ וְכַוִּ֨ין פְּתִיחָ֥ן לֵהּ֙ בְּעִלִּיתֵ֔הּ נֶ֖גֶד יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְזִמְנִין֩ תְּלָתָ֨ה בְיוֹמָ֜א ה֣וּא ׀ בָּרֵ֣ךְ עַל־בִּרְכ֗וֹהִי וּמְצַלֵּ֤א וּמוֹדֵא֙ קֳדָ֣ם אֱלָהֵ֔הּ כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־הֲוָ֣א עָבֵ֔ד מִן־קַדְמַ֖ת דְּנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and Daniel as that he.knew (diy).that it.was.signed the writing he.went.in to house his and windows \[were\].opened to it in his.upper room facing Jerusalem and times three in the day he \[was\].kneeling on knees his and.\[was\] praying and.\[was\] praising before God his as to because that he.was doing from the.former.time of.this

*JPS 1917:* And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house — now his windows were open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem — and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5dc_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5dc_5b4_5d9/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).