Definition

above the ground, i.e. (properly) the second floor of a building; used for a dome or a balcony on the upper story

Etymology

from G507 (ἄνω) and G1093 (γῆ);

Where the KJV renders it

• upper room

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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