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Room

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

"a place," is translated "room" in Luke 2:7; 14:22 , i.e., "place;" in the AV in Luke 14:9,10 , RV, "place" (of a couch at a feast); of a position or condition which a person occupies, 1 Corinthians 14:16 (RV, "place"). See OPPORTUNITY , PLACE.

"the chief reclining place at table," is rendered "uppermost rooms," in Matthew 23:6 , AV (RV, "chief place"); in Mark 12:39 , "uppermost rooms," AV (RV, "chief places"); in Luke 14:7 , "chief rooms," AV (RV, "chief seats"); in Luke 14:8 , AV, "highest room" (RV, "chief seat"); in Luke 20:46 , AV, "highest seats" (RV, "chief seats"). See CHIEF , B, No. 7, PLACE, No. 5.

"an upper room" (ana, "above," ge, "ground"), occurs in Mark 14:15; Luke 22:12 , "a chamber," often over a porch, or connected with the roof, where meals were taken and privacy obtained.

the neuter of the adjective huperoos, "upper" (from huper, "above"), used as a noun, denoted in classical Greek "an upper story" or "room" where the women resided; in the Sept. and the NT, "an upper chamber, a roof-chamber," built on the flat "roof" of the house, Acts 1:13 , RV, "upper chamber" (AV "upper room"); see CHAMBER , No. 2.

"to make room," is translated "there was ... room" in Mark 2:2 . See CONTAIN , No. 1

"in place of, instead of," is translated "in the room of" in Matthew 2:22 .

Notes: (1) In Luke 12:17 , AV, pou, "anywhere" or "where," with a negative, is translated "no room" (RV, "not where"). (2) In Acts 24:27 , AV, diadochos, "a successor," with lambano, "to receive," is translated "came into (Felix') room," RV, "(Felix) was succeeded by." Diadochos often meant a deputy, a temporary successor."