STORIES

sto'-riz: For the King James Version "stories" (ma'aloth) in Amos 9:6, the Revised Version (British and American) reads "chambers" (in heavens); in Genesis 6:16 (ark); Ezekiel 42:3,6 (temple), the word is supplied. the Revised Version (British and American) in the latter verse reads in the text "the third story" (margin as in the King James Version). In 1 Ki 6:5,10, the Revised Version (British and American) has "stories" (yatsia` yatsua`; see TEMPLE, A1 ), and in Ezekiel 41:6 supphes "stories."

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.