22 occurrences

'Roof' in the Bible

Make a roof for the ark, and finish the walls to within one cubit from the top. Place the entrance in the side of the ark, and build a lower, a middle, and an upper deck.

Verse ConceptsRooftopDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

"When you build a new house, install a parapet along your roof so that if someone falls from the roof, you won't bring guilt of bloodshed on your house."

Verse ConceptsRooftopArchitectureHousesSanctity Of LifeBattlementsPeople Falling From A HeightGuiltconstruction

But she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them among stalks of flax that she had laid out in order on the roof.

Verse ConceptsFlaxHousesStoringHousetopsRooftopPeople Hiding People

Before the scouts had lain down, she went up to them on 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

But there was a fortified tower in the center of the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city escaped to it, shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

Verse ConceptsRooftopIsrael FleeingWomen's Roles

Now the building was full of men, women, and all the Philistine officials, with about 3,000 men and women on the roof watching Samson while he was entertaining them.

Verse ConceptsFilling HousesThree Thousand And UpRooftopSports

When they had come down from the high place into town, Samuel spoke to Saul on the roof.

Verse ConceptsHousetopsRooftop

They got up early in the morning, and about daybreak Samuel called to Saul on the roof, "Get up and I'll send you off." Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside.

Verse ConceptsRising EarlyRooftopThose Who Rose EarlyGet Up!

Late one afternoon about dusk, David got up from his couch and was walking around on the roof of the royal palace. From there he watched a woman taking a bath, and she was very beautiful to look at.

Verse ConceptsBodyBathing, For RefreshmentRoofPornographyRooftopBedsWomen's Beauty

So they erected a tent for Absalom on the palace roof and Absalom went in and had sex with his father's mistresses right in front of all Israel.

Verse ConceptsImmorality, Examples Of SexualRoofTentsRooftopSeeing People

Meanwhile, David was sitting between the inner and outer gates of the city. The watchman was up on the roof of the gateway near the walls, looking around, and there was a man running by himself!

Verse ConceptsRoofWallsRooftopSitting In The GatewayRunning With NewsPeople Sitting Down

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to 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

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.

Verse ConceptsTongueThings Stuck TogetherForgetting Things

Through slothfulness the roof deteriorates, and a house leaks because of idleness.

Verse ConceptsRooftopSlothfulnessMoist ThingsWorking Hard And Not Being Lazysloth

Meanwhile, I'll make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you'll be mute and unable to reprove them, since they're a rebellious group.

Verse ConceptsMutenessTongueDumbnessJoining Flesh And BonesDumb

He measured the gate from the roof of the guardhouses to the roof of another at 25 cubits from doorway to opposite doorway.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Doorways

About a year later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveRoofYearsOne YearRoyal HousesRooftop

Bible Theasaurus

Barrack (1 instance)
Ceiling (7 instances)

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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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