Lexicon dóma: a house, a housetop Original Word: δῶμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: dóma Phonetic Spelling: (do'-mah) Short Definition: the top of the house Definition: the roof (of a house), the top of the house. HELPS word-Studies 1430 dṓma (from demō, "to build a house") – the roof-area of a flat-roof house. Flat housetops were ideal on hot summer nights for sleeping and passing on information "from one housetop to another." NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom demó (to build) Definitiona house, a housetop NASB Translationhousetop (4), housetops (2), roof (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1430: δῶμαδῶμα, δώματος, τό ( δέμω, to build); 1. a building, house, (Homer and following). 2. a part of a building, dining-room, hall, (Homer and following). 3. in the Script. equivalent to γααγ house-top, roof (Winer's Grammar, 23): Matthew 24:17; Mark 13:15; Luke 5:19; Luke 17:31. The house-tops of the Orientals were (and still are) level, and were frequented not only for walking but also for meditation and prayer: Acts 10:3; hence, ἐπί δωμάτων, on the house-tops, i. e. in public: Matthew 10:27; Luke 12:3; ἐπί τό δῶμα ... κατ' ὀφθαλμούς παντός Ἰσραήλ, 2 Samuel 16:22.
Strong's housetop. From demo (to build); properly, an edifice, i.e. (specially) a roof -- housetop. |
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