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# עֲלִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5944

**roof-chamber** — used 20 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

roof-chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5944/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲלִיָּה: n.f. roof-chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5944/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (c. adj. masc. Je 22:14, cf. AlbrechtZAW xvi (1896), 83 KöSynt. § 251 K) roof-chamber (NH id., 𝔗 עֲלִיתָא, Syriac ܥܶܠܻܝܬܳܐ (whence Arabic عُلِّيَّة dining-room as loan-wd. Frä 20 f.); Sab. עלית DHMEpigr. Denkm. 27);—chamber on roof, cool and secluded: abs. ע׳ Ju 3:23, 24, 25 (cf. NesMarg. 13), 1 K 17:19, 23 2 K 4:11; cstr. עֲלִיַת הַמְּקֵרָה Ju 3:20, ע׳־קִיר 2 K 4:10 roof-chamber with walls (permanent); ע׳ הַשַּׁעַר 2 S 19:1, i.e. over the gateway; ע׳ הַפִּנָּה Ne 3:31, 32 i.e. at a corner of the wall; ע׳ אָחָז 2 K 23:12 (prob. built by A.); sf. עֲלִיָּתוֹ 1:2 (belonging to Ahaziah));—2 Ch 9:4 read עֹלֹתָיו (cf. ‖ 1 K 10:5); pl. abs. עֲלִיּוֹת מְרֻוָּחִים Je 22:14 spacious roof-chambers; in Sol.’s temple according to 2 Ch 3:9, so sf. עֲלִיֹּתָיו 1 Ch 28:11; more gen. עֲלִיּוֹתָיו Je 22:13; י׳’s chambers in sky ψ 104:3, containing rain, v 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his upper (4); the roof chamber (4); room (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.13/#tree)

מַשְׁקֶ֣ה הָ֭רִים מֵעֲלִיּוֹתָ֑יו מִפְּרִ֥י מַ֝עֲשֶׂ֗יךָ תִּשְׂבַּ֥ע הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].watering mountains from his.upper rooms from the.fruit your.works your it.is.satisfied the earth

*JPS 1917:* Who waterest the mountains from Thine upper chambers; the earth is full of the fruit of Thy works.

[2 Chronicles 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.9/#tree)

וּמִשְׁקָ֛ל לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים זָהָ֑ב וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת חִפָּ֥ה זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] weight of nails to shekels fifty gold and the.upper rooms he.overlaid gold

*JPS 1917:* And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5944.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5944/): 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).