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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5944

עֲלִיָּה

aliahal-ee-yaw'

upper room

20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻălîyâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5944is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5944

something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky

The King James renders it: ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

aliah is rendered "upper room". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 3:20Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

Judges 3:20בַּעֲלִיַּ֨ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in nine of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the roof chamber3
  • the upper room3
  • roof-chamber of2
  • upper room of2
  • an upper room of1
  • and the upper rooms1
  • and upper room his1
  • and upper rooms1
  • and upper rooms his1
  • and upper rooms its1
  • from upper rooms his1
  • in roof chamber of1

and 2 more, 20 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

עֲלִילָהalilahwantonnessUses24
עֲלִילalilfurnaceUses1
עֲלִיצוּתalitsuthexultationUses1
עֲלִילִיָּהaliliahdeedUses1

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הָעֲלִיָּ֖ה2
  • עֲלִיַּ֥ת2
  • בַּעֲלִיַּ֨ת1
  • בַּעֲלִיָּת֛וֹ1
  • הָֽעֲלִיָּ֑ה1
  • הָעֲלִיָּ֗ה1
  • הָעֲלִיָּה֙1
  • הָעַלִיָּ֛ה1
  • וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת1
  • וַעֲלִיּ֖וֹת1
  • וַעֲלִיּוֹתָ֖יו1
  • וַעֲלִיָּת֔וֹ1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular6HTd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Td/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfpc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms

Judges

four uses
  • Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

    Judges 3:20

    • בַּעֲלִיַּ֨תbaaliyatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in roof chamber of
  • Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

    Judges 3:23

    • הָעַלִיָּ֛הhaaliyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the roof chamber
  • After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

    Judges 3:24

    • הָעֲלִיָּ֖הhaaliyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the roof chamber
  • So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

    Judges 3:25

    • הָֽעֲלִיָּ֑הhaaliyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the roof chamber

2 Samuel

one use
  • The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

    2 Samuel 18:33

    • עֲלִיַּ֥תʾaliyatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: upper room of

1 Kings

two uses
  • But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

    1 Kings 17:19

    • הָעֲלִיָּ֗הhaaliyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the upper room
  • Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.

    1 Kings 17:23

    • הָעֲלִיָּה֙haaliyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the upper room

2 Kings

four uses
  • Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”

    2 Kings 1:2

    • בַּעֲלִיָּת֛וֹbaaliyatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in upper room his
  • Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

    2 Kings 4:10

    • עֲלִיַּת־ʾaliyat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an upper room of
  • One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.

    2 Kings 4:11

    • הָעֲלִיָּ֖הhaaliyahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the upper room
  • He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

    2 Kings 23:12

    • עֲלִיַּ֨תʾaliyatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: upper room of

1 Chronicles

one use
  • Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

    1 Chronicles 28:11

    • וַעֲלִיֹּתָ֛יוvaaliyotavconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and upper rooms its

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.

    2 Chronicles 3:9

    • וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹתvehaaliyotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the upper rooms
  • the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.

    2 Chronicles 9:4

    • וַעֲלִיָּת֔וֹvaaliyatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and upper room his

Nehemiah

two uses
  • Next to him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room above the corner.

    Nehemiah 3:31

    • עֲלִיַּ֥תʾaliyatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: roof-chamber of
  • And between the upper room above the corner and the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and merchants made repairs.

    Nehemiah 3:32

    • עֲלִיַּ֤תʾaliyatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: roof-chamber of

Psalms

two uses
  • laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

    Psalms 104:3

    • עֲֽלִיּ֫וֹתָ֥יוaliyotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: upper rooms his
  • He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

    Psalms 104:13

    • מֵעֲלִיּוֹתָ֑יוmealiyotavpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from upper rooms his

Jeremiah

two uses
  • “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

    Jeremiah 22:13

    • וַעֲלִיּוֹתָ֖יוvaaliyotavconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and upper rooms his
  • who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

    Jeremiah 22:14

    • וַעֲלִיּ֖וֹתvaaliyotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and upper rooms

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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