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. 2 Kings 12:3 הַבָּמ֖וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  2. 2 Kings 12:3 בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃ ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  3. 2 Kings 14:4 הַבָּמ֖וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  4. 2 Kings 14:4 בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃ ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  5. 2 Kings 15:4 הַבָּמ֖וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  6. 2 Kings 15:4 בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃ ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  7. 2 Kings 15:35 הַבָּמוֹת֙ ha.ba.mOt · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

  8. 2 Kings 15:35 בַּבָּמ֑וֹת ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

  9. 2 Kings 16:4 בַּבָּמ֖וֹת ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  10. 2 Kings 17:9 בָּמוֹת֙ ba.mOt · A person, place or thing

    And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

  11. 2 Kings 17:11 בָּמ֔וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

  12. 2 Kings 17:29 הַבָּמ֗וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  13. 2 Kings 17:32 בָמ֔וֹת va.Mot · A person, place or thing

    So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  14. 2 Kings 17:32 הַבָּמֽוֹת׃ ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  15. 2 Kings 18:4 הַבָּמ֗וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

  16. 2 Kings 18:22 בָּמֹתָ֣יו ba.mo.Tav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

  17. 2 Kings 21:3 הַבָּמ֔וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  18. 2 Kings 23:5 בַּבָּמוֹת֙ ba.ba.mOt · A person, place or thing

    And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

  19. 2 Kings 23:8 הַבָּמ֗וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

  20. 2 Kings 23:8 בָּמ֣וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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