Words the Bible translates as roof
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- dōmaδῶμαa house's flat roof, treated as usable space: the level surface on top that people climbed up to, stood on, and called out from.
- gagגָּגthe flat top of a building or structure, above all the usable roof of a house
- tsoharצֹהַרan opening Noah was told to make near the top of the ark, whose exact form (window, roof, or light-shaft) is uncertain.
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- noon: the middle of the day, when the sun stands highest and the light is fullest.
- stegēστέγηroofnot studied yet
- qorahקוֹרָהa roof beam: the heavy horizontal timber laid across the walls of a building to carry its roof or ceiling, and by extension the roof itself
- allitעֲלִיroofnot studied yet
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