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. Micah 1:3 בָּ֥מֳתֵי ba.mo.tei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  2. Micah 1:5 בָּמ֣וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  3. Micah 3:12 לְבָמ֥וֹת le.va.Mot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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