# H5944 עֲלִיָּה

עֲלִיָּה (ʻălîyâh), Strong’s H5944: something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky KJV: ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft…

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

KJV: ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.

Derived from [עָלָה ʻâlâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H5927) (to ascend, intransitively)

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עֲלִיָּה n.f. roof-chamber

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=20) — Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to…
- [Judges 3:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=23) — Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
- [Judges 3:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=24) — After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is…
- [Judges 3:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=25) — They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the…
- [2 Samuel 19:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=1) — The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son…
- [1 Kings 17:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=19) — He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and…
- [1 Kings 17:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=23) — Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah…
- [2 Kings 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/1?v=2) — Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and…
- [2 Kings 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/4?v=10) — Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When…
- [2 Kings 4:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/4?v=11) — One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.