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Notes: It is very possible that the two idioms in 28.64: δῶμα / 28.64: ἐν / 28.64: ἐπί / 28.64: φῶς differ somewhat in meaning, or at least in connotation, but it is difficult, if not impossible, to show this from existing contexts.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: δῶμα; -τος

Sense 1: housetop

Semantic entry: 7.51

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: the area on the top of a flat-roof house

Notes: The phrase κηρύξατε ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων ‘proclaim from the housetops’ (RV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 10:27) is an idiom meaning ‘to proclaim publicly’ (see 28.64: δῶμα / 28.64: ἐν / 28.64: ἐπί / 28.64: φῶς). See 7.50: στέγη for comments relating to translational problems.

Further resources: realia:3.1.5

MAT 10:27: RV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 10:27

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OET-RV MAT 10:27

27 Whatever I tell you apprentices in the darkness, speak it out in the light, and what you hear whispered, go and yell it out from up on the top porch.

OET-LV MAT 10:27

27 What I _am _telling to _you _all in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you _all _are _hearing in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

MAT 24:17: RV MAT 24:17 · LV MAT 24:17 · Read together MAT 24:17

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OET-RV MAT 24:17

17 anyone outside on the flat roof shouldn’t go back inside to get things out of the house,

OET-LV MAT 24:17

17 the one on the housetop, let_ not _come _down to _take _away the things out _of the house of _him,

All 7 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 10:27 · RV MAT 24:17 · LV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 24:17 · Read together MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 24:17

MRK: RV MRK 13:15 · LV MRK 13:15 · Read together MRK 13:15

LUK: RV LUK 5:19 · RV LUK 12:3 · RV LUK 17:31 · LV LUK 5:19 · LV LUK 12:3 · LV LUK 17:31 · Read together LUK 5:19 · Read together LUK 12:3 · Read together LUK 17:31

ACT: RV ACT 10:9 · LV ACT 10:9 · Read together ACT 10:9

Sense 2: in public, publicly

Semantic entry: 28.64

Semantic domains: Know

Subdomains: Able To Be Known

Definition: (an idiom, literally: on the housetops) pertaining to being widely known in view of the events in question having taken place in public{N:001}

Collocations: ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων

MAT 10:27: RV MAT 10:27 · LV MAT 10:27 · Read together MAT 10:27

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OET-RV MAT 10:27

27 Whatever I tell you apprentices in the darkness, speak it out in the light, and what you hear whispered, go and yell it out from up on the top porch.

OET-LV MAT 10:27

27 What I _am _telling to _you _all in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you _all _are _hearing in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

LUK 12:3: RV LUK 12:3 · LV LUK 12:3 · Read together LUK 12:3

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OET-RV LUK 12:3

3 Anything that you whispered in the dark will be heard in the light, and anything that was only for certain ears in a private room will be announced from the rooftops.

OET-LV LUK 12:3

3 Instead _of that as _much _as you _all _said in the darkness, will _be _being _heard in the light, and what you _all _spoke to the ear in the private _rooms, will _be _being _proclaimed on the housetops.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

δῶμα

Form 1

Sense 1: housetop

Sense 2: in public, publicly