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loft

Meaning of “loft”

1. An upper room. 2. A story or level of a building.

Definition sources

Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
2 occurrences2 verses2 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: 1 Kings 17:19

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “loft”

KJV PCE
1 Kings 17:19
And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Kings 17:19 · retained source text

And he said vnto her, Giue me thy sonne. And he tooke him out of her bosome, and caried him vp into a loft, where he abode, and laide him vpon his owne bed.

Acts 20:9
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 20:9 · retained source text

And there sate in a window a certaine yong man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deepe sleepe, and as Paul was long preaching, hee sunke downe with sleepe, and fel downe from the third loft, and was taken vp dead.

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Definition evidence

1 · Direct Scripture definition

1 Kings 17:19; Acts 20:9; Acts 20:8

Elijah carries the child upward into a room; Eutychus falls from the third level of the building.

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