ʻălîyâh — H5944

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. roof-room, roof chamber

Usually translated as

chamber, ascent, loft, going up, parlour

Origin

feminine from H5927

• Derived from ʻâlâh (H5927)

Greek equivalents

• ekkentéō (G1574)

Occurrences

ʻălîyâh occurs 19 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (3), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Nehemiah (2), Psalms (2), Jeremiah (2)

• Judges 3:23 — Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of (הָעַלִיָּ֛ה) the parlour upon him, and locked them.
• Judges 3:24 — When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of (הָעֲלִיָּ֖ה) the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
• Judges 3:25 — And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of (הָֽעֲלִיָּ֑ה) the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
• 2 Samuel 18:33 — And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber (עֲלִיַּ֥ת) over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
• 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 (הָעֲלִיָּ֗ה), where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
• 1 Kings 17:23 — And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber (הָעֲלִיָּה֙) into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
• 2 Kings 1:2 — And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber (בַּעֲלִיָּת֛וֹ) that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
• 2 Kings 4:10 — Let us make a little chamber (עֲלִיַּת), 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 he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
• 2 Kings 4:11 — And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber (הָעֲלִיָּ֖ה), and lay there.
• 2 Kings 23:12 — And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber (עֲלִיַּ֨ת) of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
• 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 (וַעֲלִיֹּתָ֛יו) thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
• 2 Chronicles 3:9 — And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers (וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת) with gold.
• 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 his ascent (וַעֲלִיָּת֔וֹ) by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
• Nehemiah 3:31 — After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up (עֲלִיַּ֥ת) of the corner.
• Nehemiah 3:32 — And between the going up (עֲלִיַּ֤ת) of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
• Psalms 104:3 — Who layeth the beams of his chambers (עֲֽלִיּ֫וֹתָ֥יו) 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 (מֵעֲלִיּוֹתָ֑יו): 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 (וַעֲלִיּוֹתָ֖יו) by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
• Jeremiah 22:14 — That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers (וַעֲלִיּ֖וֹת), and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.