Loft

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t. & i.) To raise aloft; to send into the air;

(2): ( v. t. & i.) to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.

(3): ( a.) Lofty; proud.

(4): ( v. t.) To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.

(5): ( n.) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

(6): ( n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation.

(7): ( n.) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.

(8): ( n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.

(9): ( n.) A floor or room placed above another; a story.

King James Dictionary

LOFT, n.

1. Properly, an elevation hence, in a building, the elevation of one story or floor above another hence, a floor above another as the second loft third loft fourth loft. Spenser seems to have used the word for the highest floor or top, and this may have been its original signification. 2. A high room or place.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Kings 17:19HouseUpper Room

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

LOFT. See House, 5 .

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

 Acts 20:9

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( עֲלַיָּה , Aliy Ah', Ὑπερῷον ), the upper chamber, e.g. of a private house ( 1 Kings 17:19;  Acts 20:9). Such rooms were either over the gate ( 2 Samuel 19:1) or built on the flat roof ( 2 Kings 23:12), and were especially used for prayer, conference, or public meetings. (See Chamber); (See House); (See Roof).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

In  1 Kings 17:23 , changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "chamber."