Original Word: δῶμα
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: dóma
Pronunciation: DOH-mah
Phonetic Spelling: (do'-mah)
KJV: housetop
NASB: housetop, housetops, roof
Word Origin: [from demo "to build"]

1. (properly) an edifice
2. (specially) a roof

housetop.

From demo (to build); properly, an edifice, i.e. (specially) a roof -- housetop.

1430 dṓma (from demō, "to build a house") – the roof-area of a flat-roof house. Flat housetops were ideal on hot summer nights for sleeping and passing on information "from one housetop to another."

Word Origin
from demó (to build)
Definition
a house, a housetop
NASB Translation
housetop (4), housetops (2), roof (1).

STRONGS NT 1430: δῶμα

δῶμα, δώματος, τό (δέμω, to build);

1. a building, house, (Homer and following).

2. a part of a building, dining-room, hall, (Homer and following).

3. in the Script. equivalent to γααγ house-top, roof (Winer's Grammar, 23): Matthew 24:17; Mark 13:15; Luke 5:19; Luke 17:31. The house-tops of the Orientals were (and still are) level, and were frequented not only for walking but also for meditation and prayer: Acts 10:3; hence, ἐπί δωμάτων, on the house-tops, i. e. in public: Matthew 10:27; Luke 12:3; ἐπί τό δῶμα ... κατ' ὀφθαλμούς παντός Ἰσραήλ, 2 Samuel 16:22.

δωμα δώμα δῶμα δώματα δώματι δώματί δωματος δώματος δωματων δωμάτων doma dôma dōma dō̂ma domaton domáton dōmatōn dōmátōn domatos dōmatos dṓmatosInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts