High place
בָּמָהStrong’s H1116bamah (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:28For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
- Numbers 33:52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
- Deuteronomy 33:29Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
- 1 Samuel 9:12And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
- 1 Samuel 9:13As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
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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.