δῶμα dōma
Meaning
properly, an edifice, i.e. (specially) a roof
In the King James Version: housetop
Derivation: from (to build);
Where it is used
- Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- Matthew 24:17 Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
- Mark 13:15 Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.
- Luke 5:19 but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
- Luke 12:3 What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
- Luke 17:31 On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
- Acts 10:9 The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.