Acts 9:37

And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed - according to the custom of all civilized nations toward the dead. Though the washing of the corpse was in this case, of course, a female operation, the participle is in the masculine gender [ lousantes (G3068)], as the writer's object was not to express by whom the thing was done, but simply to state what was done by those whose business it was (Winer, 27: 6).

They laid in an (or 'the') upper chamber - of the house where she was (compare 1 Kings 17:19).