Strong's #5944: `aliyah (pronounced al-ee-yaw')
feminine from 5927; something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky:--ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛ălı̂yâh
1) roof-room, roof chamber
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5927
Usage:
This word is used 20 times:
Judges 3:20: "him; and he was sitting in a summer parlor, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said,"
Judges 3:23: "through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked"
Judges 3:24: "and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he"
Judges 3:25: "he opened not the doors of the parlor; therefore they took a key, and opened"
2 Samuel 18:33: "was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus"
1 Kings 17:19: "him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he"
1 Kings 17:23: "the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah"
2 Kings 1:2: "fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent"
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,"
2 Kings 4:11: "thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there."
2 Kings 23:12: "that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah"
1 Chronicles 28:11: "of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlors thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,"
2 Chronicles 3:9: "shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold."
2 Chronicles 9:4: "and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD;"
Nehemiah 3:31: "the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner."
Nehemiah 3:32: "And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants."
Psalms 104:3: "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon"
Psalms 104:13: "He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit"
Jeremiah 22:13: "unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's"
Jeremiah 22:14: "me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar,"