Bible dictionaries
Loft
What Bible dictionaries say about “Loft”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Loft - (Webster's 1828 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.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
In 1Ki 17:23, changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "chamber."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915