. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . Ai^-^^y,. House with an Alliyeh. most important apartment, and constituteswhat is called in the Bible the The windows of the upper roomsoften project one or two feet, forming lat- i Judg. ill., 15-26; Mark ii., 4; Luke v., 18, 19.—2 Luke xxii., 61.—3 Luke xxii., 12; Acts i., 13; ix., 37;xx., 8, 9. HOUSE 442 HOUSE. Terrace with Roof. ticed chambers. Such may have been the chamber on the wall set apart
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . Ai^-^^y,. House with an Alliyeh. most important apartment, and constituteswhat is called in the Bible the The windows of the upper roomsoften project one or two feet, forming lat- i Judg. ill., 15-26; Mark ii., 4; Luke v., 18, 19.—2 Luke xxii., 61.—3 Luke xxii., 12; Acts i., 13; ix., 37;xx., 8, 9. HOUSE 442 HOUSE. Terrace with Roof. ticed chambers. Such may have been the chamber on the wall set apart for Elishaby the Shunamite woman, and the loft ofthe widow Zarephath j1 or it may have beena room like a tower, built above the roof,which are common at the present day. Sucha room is called an alliyeli. When there is but one court, the apart-ments for women are in the upper part ofthe house; if there be two courts, the inner-most one is theirs; if more than two, themaster occupies the second, and sees therethose of his family whom he chooses to sum-mon from the third court, in which they entrance to the second court is usuallyat the corner of the first, by a door and pas-sage similar to that from the street into thefirst. The interior, or womens court, is usu-ally larger than the first; it is paved, exceptin the middle, where is a tank for bathing,2and where a few trees and shrubs are plant-ed. To the harem, or womens apartment,the master alone, besides the occupants, hasaccess. Here he c
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