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. 1 Kings 12:32 הַבָּמ֖וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made.

  2. 1 Kings 13:2 הַבָּמוֹת֙ ha.ba.mOt · A person, place or thing

    And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.

  3. 1 Kings 13:32 הַבָּמ֔וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    For the saying which he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

  4. 1 Kings 13:33 בָמ֔וֹת va.Mot · A person, place or thing

    After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

  5. 1 Kings 13:33 בָמֽוֹת׃ va.Mot · A person, place or thing

    After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

  6. 1 Kings 14:23 בָּמ֥וֹת ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  7. 1 Kings 15:14 וְהַבָּמ֖וֹת ve.ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

  8. 1 Kings 22:43 הַבָּמ֖וֹת ha.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  9. 1 Kings 22:43 בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃ ba.ba.Mot · A person, place or thing

    And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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;

  20. 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;

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