עֲלִיָּה aliyyah

Hebrew word for “upper room” · Strong’s H5944 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

roof-room, roof chamber

How it is translated

Glosses given for aliyyah in context, with how often each is used:

• upper room 8
• upper rooms 6
• roof chamber 4
• roof-chamber 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 3 (4), 1 Kings 17 (2), 2 Kings 4 (2), Nehemiah 3 (2), Psalms 104 (2), Jeremiah 22 (2), 2 Samuel 18 (1), 2 Kings 1 (1), 2 Kings 23 (1), 1 Chronicles 28 (1)

Forms

• העליה 6
• עלית 5
• בעלית 1
• בעליתו 1
• ועליתיו 1
• והעליות 1
• ועליתו 1
• עליותיו 1
• מעליותיו 1
• ועליותיו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with aliyyah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מְקֵרָה meqerah “cool” 2
• דֶּלֶת delet “door” 3
• נָעַל naal “to lock” 2
• אֵהוּד ehud “Ehud” 2
• רָכַל rakhal “to trade” 2
• שָׁם sham “there” 4
• מִטָּה mittah “bed” 2
• פִּנָּה pinnah “corner” 2
• חֶדֶר cheder “chamber” 2
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 3
• שֻׁלְחָן shulchan “table” 2
• בַּעַד bead “about/through/for” 2

Key verses

The verses using aliyyah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Judges 3:20 — And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he…
• 2 Samuel 18:33 — And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would…
• 1 Kings 17:19 — And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
• 2 Kings 1:2 — And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of…
• 2 Kings 4:10 — Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when…
• 2 Kings 23:12 — And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts…
• 1 Chronicles 28:11 — Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and…
• 2 Chronicles 9:4 — And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and…
• Psalms 104:3 — Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
• Psalms 104:13 — He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
• Jeremiah 22:13 — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for…
• Jeremiah 22:14 — That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.