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Strong's G1430 δῶμα (doma)

Doma means “housetop” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1430 — gadish (“tomb”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1430
Language Greek
Linked Usages 33
Books 19

Strong's G1430 Quick Answer

Strong's G1430 δῶμα (doma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. doma (do`-mah) n. 1. (properly) an edifice 2. (specially) a roof It has 33 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include housetop and housetops. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
doma (do`-mah) n. 1. (properly) an edifice 2. (specially) a roof
Usage
33 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
housetop and housetops

Meaning and Definition

doma (do`-mah) n. 1. (properly) an edifice 2. (specially) a roof [from demo "to build"] KJV: housetop

Original Word
δῶμα
Transliteration
doma
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1430. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

housetop

Usage: δῶμα, -τος, τό (δέμω, to build), [in LXX for גָּג ;] chiefly in poets and late (not Attic) prose; __1. a house, hall. __2. In LXX (and Hom., Od., x, 554; cf. MGr., terrace), house-top: ἐπὶ τ. δῶμα, Luk.5:19, Act.10:9; ἐπὶ τ. δώματος, -άτων, Mat.10:27 24:17, Mrk.13:15, Luk.12:3 17:31.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1430 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render doma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

housetop Matthew 24:17 housetops Matthew 10:27

How Strong's G1430 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 25 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1430 (δῶμα) appears 28 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1430 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1430 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 10:27 KJV

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

Matthew 24:17 KJV

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Mark 13:15 KJV

And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:

Strong's G1430 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

25 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 3:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.

Deuteronomy 22:8 Septuagint / Brenton

If thou shouldest build a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring bloodguiltiness upon thy house, if one should in anywise fall from it.

Joshua 2:6 Septuagint / Brenton

But she had brought them up upon the house, and hid them in the flax stalks that were spread by her on the house.

Strong's G1430 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 8:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And she made her a tent upon the top of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins, and wore her widow’s apparel.

Usage Excerpts

First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1430.

Genesis 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.
Deuteronomy 22:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou shouldest build a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring bloodguiltiness upon thy house, if one should in anywise fall from it.
Joshua 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But she had brought them up upon the house, and hid them in the flax stalks that were spread by her on the house.
Joshua 2:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the men who pursued after them were gone forth, and before the spies had lain down to sleep, that she came up to them on the top of the house;
Judges 9:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was a strong tower in the midst of the city; and thither all the men and the women of the city fled, and shut the door without them, and went up on the roof of the tower.
Judges 16:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the house was full of men and women, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women looking at the sports of Samson.
1 Kingdoms 9:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went down from Bama into the city; and they prepared a lodging for Saul on the roof, and he lay down.
1 Kingdoms 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the morning dawned, that Samuel called Saul on the roof, saying, Rise up, and I will dismiss thee. And Saul arose, and he and Samuel went out.
2 Kingdoms 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king’s house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
2 Kingdoms 16:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Kingdoms 18:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up on the top of the gate of the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone before him.
4 Kingdoms 19:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they that dwelt in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became as grass of the field, or as the green herb, the grass growing on houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands upon it.
4 Kingdoms 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kidron.
2 Chronicles 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he burned incense upon the high places, and upon the roofs, and under every shady tree.
Nehemiah 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Psalms 101:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become As a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.
Psalms 128:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them be as the grass of the housetops, Which withers before it is plucked up.
Proverbs 32:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.
Isaiah 22:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The word of the Valley of Zion. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?
Isaiah 37:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I weakened their hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass.
Jeremiah 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burned incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink offerings to strange gods.
Jeremiah 31:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets shall be mourning: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.
Jeremiah 39:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burned incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me.
Zephaniah 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and them that swear by their king;
Matthew 10:27 New Testament, KJV
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Matthew 24:17 New Testament, KJV
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Mark 13:15 New Testament, KJV
And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
Luke 5:19 New Testament, KJV
And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
Luke 12:3 New Testament, KJV
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luke 17:31 New Testament, KJV
In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Acts 10:9 New Testament, KJV
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
Judith 8:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And she made her a tent upon the top of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins, and wore her widow’s apparel.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1430, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1430 FAQ

What does doma (δῶμα) mean?

Doma (Strong's G1430) is a Greek word most simply glossed "housetop". doma (do`-mah) n. 1. (properly) an edifice 2. (specially) a roof

How many times is doma (δῶμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's G1430 across 19 books.

Where can I study doma (δῶμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1430 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate doma (δῶμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as housetop and housetops. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1430 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 25 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1430, with linked reader references where each row is available.