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High place

בָּמָהStrong’s H1116

bamah (ba-mah)

Appears in 92 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “high places”, “high places of” and “at the high places”. It appears in 92 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.”
Leviticus 26:30 KJV
Meaning
  1. High place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)high place, mountain · high places, battlefields · high places (as places of worship) · funeral mound?
How it's translated
  • the high places 24
  • high places of 16
  • at the high places 11
  • high places 11
  • the high place 9
  • high places your 5
  • and the high places 4
  • high places their 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Kings 19
  • 2 Chronicles 17
  • 1 Kings 12
  • 1 Samuel 7
  • Jeremiah 6
  • Ezekiel 6

18 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 92 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
26:30
Numbers 2
21:2833:52
Deuteronomy 2
32:1333:29
2 Samuel 3
1:191:2522:34
1 Chronicles 2
16:3921:29
Job 1
9:8
Psalms 2
18:3378:58
Hosea 1
10:8
Amos 2
4:137:9
Micah 3
1:31:53:12
Habakkuk 1
3:19
Hebrew dictionary

בָּמָה bamah · high place

1) high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform) 1a) high place, mountain 1b) high places, battlefields 1c) high places (as places of worship) 1d) funeral mound?

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.