doma denotes a house’s upper roof area, where people may stand, pray, lower someone inside, or make speech public.

The attested use denotes the upper roof area of a house: people are pictured on it, going up to it, or using it as a place from which speech is proclaimed publicly. The same location is also associated with not coming down into the house and with lowering a man through the roof.

1. The upper area of a house’s roof · dominant

   The term identifies a roof-level location in scenes of movement and speech. In Acts 10:9 the APB renders Peter as going up there to pray; in Luke 17:31, Mark 13:15, and Matthew 24:17 it renders someone on that location as not coming down to take possessions from the house; and in Luke 12:3 and Matthew 10:27 it renders speech as proclaimed upon plural roof locations.

   Acts 10:9Luke 12:3Luke 17:31Mark 13:15Matthew 10:27Matthew 24:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “housetop” in several verses, “housetops” for the plural settings of proclamation, and “roof” in Luke 5:19. These are whole-verse presentations of the verse contexts rather than definitions.