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ὑπερῷον

Strong’s: G5253

Associated OET lemmas: ὑπερῷον

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: ὑπερῷον; -ου

Related lemmas: ὑπέρ

Sense 1: upstairs room

Semantic entry: 7.27

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: a room on the level above the ground floor (second story in American usage and first story in most other languages)

Notes: In OET ACT 1:13 · OET ACT 9:37 · OET ACT 9:39 · OET ACT 20:8 the term ὑπερῷον may refer to the kind of rooms often built on the flat-roofed Middle East housetops.

Further resources: realia:3.1.6.4

Show passage in OET: ACT 1:13

OET-RV ACT 1:13

13 They went into the upstairs room where they were staying—Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) and Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes), Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos) and Andreas, Filippos (Philip) and Toma (Thomas), Bar -Talmay (Bartholomew; Grk. Bartholomaios) and Matay (Matthew; Grk. Matthaios), Ya’akov (son of Halfay (Grk. Halfaios)), Shim’on (Simon) (the Zealot member), and Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) (son of Ya’akov).

OET-LV ACT 1:13

13 And when they _came _in, into the upper _room, they _went _up where they _were staying, which and/both Petros and Yōannaʸs and Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) and Andreas, Filippos and Thōmas, Bartholomaios and Matthaios, Yakōbos of _Alfaios, and Simōn the Farisaios _zaʸlōtaʸs_group _member, and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) of _Yakōbos.

Show passage in OET: ACT 9:37

OET-RV ACT 9:37

37 Around that time she got sick and died. After washing her body, they placed it in an upper room,

OET-LV ACT 9:37

37 And it _became in the those days, she having _ailed to _die _off.
And having _washed her they _put in an_upper _room.

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All 4 recorded passages for this sense

ACT: OET ACT 1:13 · OET ACT 9:37 · OET ACT 9:39 · OET ACT 20:8