4 occurrences

'House top' in the Bible

Please, let us make a small, fully-walled upper room [on the housetop] and put a bed there for him, with a table, a chair, and a lampstand. Then whenever he comes to visit us, he can turn in there.”

Verse ConceptsHousesRoofSmallnessTablesBedsUpper Roomsspacecouplespoop

I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessLonelinessBirds, Figurative UseHousetopsSparrowsIsolated PersonsRooftoplonliness

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather]Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.

Verse ConceptsArguingContentious WomandisagreementsRoofSpeech, Negative Aspects OfWivesArgumentsStrifeHousetopsDomestic ViolenceContentiousnessAngry WivesRooftopQuarrelsome WivesSharingnagging

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