בָּמָה

ba.mah · high place

Hebrew · Strong's H1116 · Noun · Sounds like: bam-maw' · 102 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation; height, high place, wave.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בָּמָה 104 n.f. high place
1. high place, mountain
2. high places, battle-fields
3. high places, as places of worship
4. funereal mound (?)

Every occurrence

  1. Leviticus 26:30 בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם ba.mo.tei.Khem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

  2. Numbers 21:28 בָּמ֥וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

  3. Numbers 33:52 בָּמֹתָ֖ם ba.mo.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

  4. Deuteronomy 32:13 בָּ֣מֳתֵי ba.mo.tei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;

  5. Deuteronomy 33:29 בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹ ba.mo.Tei.mov · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.

  6. 1 Samuel 9:12 בַּבָּמָֽה׃ ba.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before thee: make haste now, for he is come to-day into the city; for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place:

  7. 1 Samuel 9:13 הַבָּמָ֜תָה ha.ba.Ma.tah · A person, place or thing

    as soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goeth up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are bidden. Now therefore get you up; for at this time ye shall find him.

  8. 1 Samuel 9:14 הַבָּמָֽה׃ ס ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And they went up to the city; and as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

  9. 1 Samuel 9:19 הַבָּמָ֔ה ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat with me to-day: and in the morning I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart.

  10. 1 Samuel 9:25 מֵהַבָּמָ֖ה me.ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he communed with Saul upon the housetop.

  11. 1 Samuel 10:5 מֵֽהַבָּמָ֔ה me.ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:

  12. 1 Samuel 10:13 הַבָּמָֽה׃ ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

  13. 2 Samuel 1:19 בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ ba.mo.Tei.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

  14. 2 Samuel 1:25 בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ ba.mo.Tei.kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.

  15. 2 Samuel 22:34 בָּמוֹתַ֖י ba.mo.Tai · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He maketh his feet like hinds' feet, And setteth me upon my high places.

  16. 1 Kings 3:2 בַּבָּמ֑וֹת ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

  17. 1 Kings 3:3 בַּבָּמ֔וֹת ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  18. 1 Kings 3:4 הַבָּמָ֣ה ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  19. 1 Kings 11:7 בָּמָ֗ה ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  20. 1 Kings 12:31 בָּמ֑וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

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