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Strong's #5253: huperoion (pronounced hoop-er-o'-on)

neuter of a derivative of 5228; a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story:--upper chamber (room).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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huperōon

1) the highest part of the house, the upper rooms or story where the women resided

2) a room in the upper part of a house, sometimes built upon the flat roof of the house, whither Orientals were wont to retire in order to sup, meditate, pray

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from a derivative of G5228




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Acts 1:13: "they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both"
Acts 9:37: "they laid her in an upper chamber."
Acts 9:39: "they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows"
Acts 20:8: "lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together."









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