עֲלִיָּה
a.liy.yah (H5944)
upper room
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "עֲלִיָּה" (a.liy.yah) is defined as "upper room." This term appears 20 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in the Hebrew language and its use in various contexts. The word "עֲלִיָּה" likely refers to a room or space located above or on a higher level, such as a second-story room or a rooftop. Its usage suggests that it was a common architectural feature in ancient Israelite homes and buildings. The term's frequent appearance in the Bible may indicate its importance in daily life, trade, or social gatherings. The significance of "עֲלִיָּה" lies in its association with various biblical events and activities, such as meals, meetings, and prayer. Its use in different contexts highlights the importance of communal spaces in ancient Israelite culture, where people gathered to share meals, discuss important matters, and connect with one another.
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Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.
Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”
They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.
After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.