aliya · upper room

What it means

aliya (עֲלִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “upper room”.

A room built on the roof of the house.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A room built on the roof.
2. The steps or ascent by which one reaches a high place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• upper room ×13
• upper rooms ×6
• ascent ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×2
• Jeremiah×2

• Judges 3:20

  Ehud came to him while he was sitting in the upper room of coolness that he had for himself alone. Ehud said, “I have a word of Elohim for you.” And he rose from the seat.

• Judges 3:23

  Ehud went out to the porch, closed the doors of the upper room behind him, and locked them.

• Judges 3:24

  When he had gone out, his servants came and looked, and there the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the room of coolness.”

• Judges 3:25

  They waited until they were ashamed, and look, he was not opening the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened them, and there was their lord, fallen to the ground, dead.

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  The king was shaken, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept; and thus he said as he went: “My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died in your place, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

• 1 Kings 17:23

  Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.”

• 2 Kings 1:2

  Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room that was in Samaria and became sick. He sent messengers and said to them, “Go, consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will live through this sickness.”

• 2 Kings 4:10

  Let us make, please, a small walled upper room and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, he can turn aside there.”

• 2 Kings 4:11

  And it happened one day that he came there and turned aside to the upper room and lay down there.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of YHWH, the king tore down and broke them from there, and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

• 1 Chronicles 28:11

  David gave Solomon his son the pattern of the portico and of its houses, its treasure rooms, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the cover of expiation;

• 2 Chronicles 3:9

  The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And the upper rooms he covered with gold.

• 2 Chronicles 9:4

  the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the station of his attendants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• Nehemiah 3:31

  After him Malchijah the son of the silversmith repaired as far as the house of the Nethinim and of the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room of the corner.

• Nehemiah 3:32

  And between the upper room of the corner and the Sheep Gate the silversmiths and the traders repaired.

• Psalms 104:3

  who lays the beams of his upper rooms on the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks on the wings of the wind,

• Psalms 104:13

  He waters the mountains from his upper rooms; with the fruit of your works the earth is satisfied.

• Jeremiah 22:13

  Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice; who makes his neighbor work for nothing and does not give him his wages;

• Jeremiah 22:14

  who says, “I will build for myself a house of great dimensions and spacious upper rooms, and cuts out for it its windows, paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.”