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. Ezekiel 6:3 בָּמֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ ba.Mo.tei.Khem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

  2. Ezekiel 6:6 וְהַבָּמ֖וֹת ve.ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

  3. Ezekiel 16:16 בָּמ֣וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

  4. Ezekiel 20:29 הַבָּמָ֔ה ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

  5. Ezekiel 36:2 וּבָמ֣וֹת u.va.Mot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

  6. Ezekiel 43:7 בָּמוֹתָֽם׃ ba.mo.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

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