עֲלִיָּהʻălîyâh

roof-chamber, chamber on roof, cool and secluded (Jeremiah 22:14; Judges 3:23; Judges 3:24; Judges 3:25; 1 Kings 17:19)

Pronunciation: al-ee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5944

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 20 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 3:20 Ehud walked over to Eglon, who was sitting alone in a cool upstairs room. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you!” As King Eglon rose from his seat,
  • Judges 3:23 Then Ehud closed and locked the doors of the room and escaped down the latrine.
  • Judges 3:24 After Ehud was gone, the king’s servants returned and found the doors to the upstairs room locked. They thought he might be using the latrine in the room,
  • Judges 3:25 so they waited. But when the king didn’t come out after a long delay, they became concerned and got a key. And when they opened the doors, they found their master dead on the floor.
  • 2 Samuel 18:33 The king was overcome with emotion. He went up to the room over the gateway and burst into tears. And as he went, he cried, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son, my son.”
  • 1 Kings 17:19 But Elijah replied, “Give me your son.” And he took the child’s body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and laid the body on his bed.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).