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. Isaiah 14:14 בָּ֣מֳתֵי Bo.mo.tei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

  2. Isaiah 15:2 הַבָּמ֖וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

  3. Isaiah 16:12 הַבָּמָ֑ה ha.ba.Mah · A person, place or thing

    And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.

  4. Isaiah 36:7 בָּמֹתָ֣יו ba.mo.Tav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But if thou 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?

  5. Isaiah 58:14 בָּ֣מֳתֵי ba.mo.tei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

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