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ˁly, ˁlytˀ (ˁellī, ˁellīṯā) n.f. upper story
1
upper story or room
Palmyrene, Qumran, Jud, JLAtg, CPA, Syr, JBA, LJLA
PAT568:1.1↗ qbrˀ dnh wgwmḥyn ˀrbˁˀ dy ˁlytˀ : this tomb and the four niches of the upper story ; 4QpapTob ar6..2=03:10↗ וסלק]ת̇ לעלית בית[‏ ; XHev/Se 8.2↗ תונה[ די פ]תיח למדנחה לגו ביתה רבה דך ולעליתה די פתיח[ה] למ[ערבה‏ : the chamber inside that large house, which faces east, and its upper story, which faces west ; TgJ Jud3:20↗ וְהוּא יָתֵיב בַעְלִיַת"באידרון" בֵית קֵיטָא דִילֵיה‏ ; TgJ Ez41:7↗ וְכֵין בִמסִיבְתָא סָלְקִין מִן אַרעָיתָא לְעִלִיתָא בְאוֹרַח מְצִיעָיתָא‏ : thus they ascend from the ground floor to the upper story on the spiral staircase through the middle way ; CPA(le97) Acts 1:13↗ ܘܟܕ ܥܐܠܘ ܠܥܠܝܬܐ‏ ; P 1K(1)17:23↗ ܘܐܚܬܗ ܡܢ ܥܠܝܬܐ ܠܒܝܬܐ‏ : he brought him down from the attic into the house ; P 2K23:12↗ ܘܡܕܒܚܐ ܕܥܠ ܐܓܪܐ ܕܥܠܝܬܗ ܕܐܚܙ‏ ; BT Tan 23b(12)↗ ניסק לעיליתא נבעי רחמי‏ : let us go up top and pray
(1)
clearstory or the like
BADan
Dan 6:11↗ עַל לְבַיְתֵהּ וְכַוִּין פְּתִיחָן לֵהּ בְּעִלִּיתֵהּ נֶגֶד יְרוּשְׁלֶם‏ : he entered his house with windows opened for him in its clearstory facing Jerusalem
(2)
as a storeroom
JBA
BT Tan 24a(28)↗ פש ליה חד זוזא, זב{י}ן ביה חיטי ועייליה לעיליתיה‏ : he had one zuz left; he bought some wheat with it and put it in his upper room
2
Upper Egypt
OfAPer
TAD A6.7 .6↗ ממנין הוו בין בגיא זילי זי בעליתא ותחתיתא‏ : they were appointed among my holdings that are in Upper and Lower Egypt
3
a measure or container
JBA
BT BB 133b(14)↗ עיליתא דדינרי‏ : a measures/chests of denars ; BT BB 133b(21)↗ בתליסר עליתא דדינרי‏ : thirteen measures/chests of denars
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See also s.vv. ˁlyh and ˁlytˀ.
For meaning 3: see DJBA; A. Demsky in Shnaton 12(2000) suggests that this word means a money chest based on a possible Phoenician parallel.
Note that in the biblical stories this structure appears to considered something other than a part of the house itself, perhaps a hut or the like erected on the roof.
Possibly also attested in Mandaic Amulet 18, line 308.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1101[527]DJPA: 404bDJBA: 855aJastrow: 1070Payne-Smith: 2890J. Payne-Smith: 414Levy Ch-W: 2:218DCPA[Schulthess]: 310[]DJA: 70bQumran: 180

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