H5952 H5952
roof chamber, upper room (Aramaic); an elevated room for prayer and private devotion
This Aramaic term designates an upper room or roof chamber, corresponding to Hebrew 'aliyyah.' Daniel 6:10 describes how Daniel went to his upper room to pray three times daily, with windows opened toward Jerusalem. Such upper rooms provided privacy and quiet, making them ideal for prayer and study. The eastward-facing windows allowed Daniel to pray toward the temple site, maintaining his connection to Jerusalem even in Babylonian exile. The detail reveals Daniel's disciplined devotional life and his refusal to compromise his public witness despite the king's decree. Upper rooms became significant prayer locations in both testaments.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Daniel's roof chamber or upper room in Daniel 6:10 where he maintained his practice of daily prayer toward Jerusalem. The multilingual evidence (English: 'in-his-upper-room', Spanish: 'en-su-aposento-alto', French: 'hauteur') consistently identifies this as an elevated private room. This architectural detail is crucial to the narrative: Daniel's faithfulness was both private (in his upper room) and public (with windows open), demonstrating that authentic devotion cannot be hidden and will not compromise under pressure. 1×
AR["فِي-عِلِّيَّتِهِ"]·ben["-উপরের-ঘরে"]·DE["[בעליתה]"]·EN["in-his-upper-room"]·FR["hauteur"]·heb["ב-עלייתו"]·HI["अपनी-अटारी-में"]·ID["di-kamar-atasnya"]·IT["[בעליתה]"]·jav["wonten-ing-kamaripun-ing-nginggil"]·KO["그-의-다락방-에"]·PT["em-seu-quarto-superior"]·RU["в-горнице-его"]·ES["en-su-aposento-alto"]·SW["katika-chumba-chake-cha-juu"]·TR["üst-odasında"]·urd["بالاخانے-میں"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [עִלִּי] n.f. roof-chamber (cf. Dr; BH עֲלִיָּה);—sf. עִלִּיתֵהּ Dn 6:11.