upper room
a.liy.yah denotes an elevated chamber or set of chambers, including rooms in houses, royal buildings, and temple structures.
The term most often denotes a chamber within a house or larger building, whether private, royal, or connected with temple architecture; in two poetic lines it describes chambers associated with waters above and the clouds.
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Chambers in houses and major buildings · dominant
The singular form identifies an enclosed chamber in the Judges account: in Judges 3:23 the APB renders that Ehud shut and locked its doors, and Judges 3:25 describes the servants opening those doors. It also occurs for a furnished room attached to a wall in 2 Kings 4:10, for rooms in David's plan in 1 Chronicles 28:11, and for plural rooms in a spacious house in Jeremiah 22:14.
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Poetic chambers above the earth · occasional
In Psalm 104:3 the plural construct form occurs in the line the APB renders, "You lay beams in the waters for your upper rooms," alongside clouds and wind. Psalm 104:13 likewise speaks of watering mountains "from your upper rooms," placing the chambers in the poem's setting above the earth.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB regularly presents the term as "upper room" or "upper rooms," including domestic, royal, and temple-related settings. In Psalm 104:3 and Psalm 104:13 it retains that wording in poetic lines about waters, mountains, clouds, and wind.