60 occurrences in 13 translations

'Roof' in the Bible

You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

Verse ConceptsRooftopDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

Verse ConceptsHooksBoardsPillars For The TabernacleCovering The TabernacleSocketsTenons And Bars

He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsCovering The Tabernacle

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

Verse ConceptsRooftopArchitectureHousesSanctity Of LifeBattlementsPeople Falling From A HeightGuiltconstruction

But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

Verse ConceptsFlaxHousesStoringHousetopsRooftopPeople Hiding People

And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftop

Ehud approached him while he was sitting by himself in the cool roof chamber of his palace. He said, "I have a message from God for you!" So when Eglon got up from his seat,

Verse ConceptsHousesThe Cool Of The DayPeople Getting Up

Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber upon him, and locked them.

Verse ConceptsPorchesShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

When he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "He is only relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."

Verse ConceptsDefecation

And they waited till they were utterly at a loss; but when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them; and there lay their lord dead on the floor.

Verse ConceptsKeys

There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

Verse ConceptsRooftopIsrael FleeingWomen's Roles

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

Verse ConceptsFilling HousesThree Thousand And UpRooftopSports

Afterward, they went down from the high place to the city, and Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

Verse ConceptsHousetopsRooftop

They got up early, and just before dawn, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, and I’ll send you on your way!” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went outside.

Verse ConceptsRising EarlyRooftopThose Who Rose EarlyGet Up!

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

Verse ConceptsBodyBathing, For RefreshmentRoofPornographyRooftopBedsWomen's Beauty

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Verse ConceptsImmorality, Examples Of SexualRoofTentsRooftopSeeing People

And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

Verse ConceptsRoofWallsRooftopSitting In The GatewayRunning With NewsPeople Sitting Down

And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the walls of the roof; he overlaid them on the inside with wood, and overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

Verse ConceptsCedar Wood

The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

Verse ConceptsFifteenForties

He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.

Verse ConceptsHousesHallsDimensions Of Buildings

Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

Verse ConceptsCedarJudgment SeatThroneHallsOverlaid With WoodPeople Involved In JudgementCedar Wood

All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.

Verse ConceptsToolsCarpentry ToolsSawsstructure

Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

The king tore down the altars that were on the roof—Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsRoofValleysBuilding AltarsUpper RoomsCourts Of The Temple

Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureStairwaysPoolsNamed GatesStepsGardens Attached To Palaces

So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardHousesRoofHousetopsNamed Gates

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being Silent

My strength is dried up like baked clay;my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You put me into the dust of death.

Verse ConceptsTongueFeverThings Stuck TogetherCreatures Returning To DustGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

He lays the beams of his roof loft on the water above, making clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChariots Of GodWingsBeamsGod WalkingGod RidingHeavenly ChariotsGod In The Windclouds

May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root

Verse ConceptsGrassHousetopsGrass WitheredLike GrassGrowing

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Verse ConceptsTongueThings Stuck TogetherForgetting Things

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Verse ConceptsLove And Wine

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsTongueBeggingSeeking FoodNo FoodYoung People Suffering

And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

Verse ConceptsMutenessTongueDumbnessJoining Flesh And BonesDumb

He will kill your daughters on the mainland with the sword, and he shall make siege walls against you and build a siege ramp against you and raise [a roof of] large shields [as a defense] against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Doorways

The thresholds, the latticed windows, and the galleries all around their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

Verse ConceptsNarrownessWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

At the end of 12 months, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace in Babylon,

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveRoofYearsOne YearRoyal HousesRooftop

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeFaithfulness, Examples OfAttitudes Of HumilityAttitudes, in prayerDecisivenessKneelingNoonPrayer, Practicalities OfReverence, And ObedienceThanksgivingWorship, Times ForBoldness Examples OfThanksgiving, OfferedCourage, Examples OfSecret PrayerSeveral Times A DaySignaturesUnpremeditatedUpper RoomsWhen To Prayculturetoughness

Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.

Verse ConceptsWaitingBoothsPeople Sitting Downjonah

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Advice For EffectiveRoofHumility, Examples OfUnworthinessChrist SpeakingJesus HealingFaith And HealingHope And Healing

And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

Verse ConceptsRooftopCrowdsHousesRoofBedsThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsLowering PeopleDisadvantages Of CrowdsUnable To Do Other ThingsBringing Men To Jesus

The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftopMan Going Down

Then he brought Him to Jerusalem and caused Him to stand on the roof of the Temple, and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here; for it is written,

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWho Is Jesus?Status Of The TempleTop Of ThingsThe DevilResisting TemptationConfidence And Self Esteemjumping

Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the mat through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus.

Verse ConceptsRooftopCrowdsHousesRoofHousetopsBedsLowering PeopleDisadvantages Of Crowds

Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:

Verse ConceptsPoverty, SpiritualPrayer, Advice For EffectiveRoofPeople Not Far Away

On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftopMan Going DownPeople not returning

Around noon the next day, while they were on their way and coming close to the town, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

Verse ConceptsNoonPrayer, Practicalities OfRoofHousetopsSecret PrayerRooftopWhere To Pray

If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell.

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming PeopleDo Not GreetDoctrines of the The Gospelatheismgoodbyesdoctrinewelcome

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּג 
Gag 
roof , housetop , top , ... house
Usage: 30

חך 
Chek 
mouth , roof of the mouth , taste
Usage: 18

קרה קורה 
Qowrah 
Usage: 5

στέγη 
Stege 
Usage: 3

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