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Bamah

בָּמָהStrong’s H1391

bamah (ba-mah)

Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gibeon”, “at gibeon” and “from gibeon”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.

“And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,”
Joshua 9:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bamah = "high place"
How it's translated
  • gibeon 18
  • at gibeon 8
  • in gibeon 5
  • from gibeon 3
  • gibeon towards 2
  • and in gibeon 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Joshua 13
  • 2 Samuel 6
  • 1 Chronicles 6
  • 1 Kings 3
  • Jeremiah 3
  • 2 Chronicles 2

8 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 36 verses, by book
1 Kings 3
3:43:59:2
2 Chronicles 2
1:31:13
Nehemiah 2
3:77:25
Isaiah 1
28:21
Jeremiah 3
28:141:1241:16
Hebrew dictionary

בָּמָה bamah · Bamah

Bamah = "high place" a place in Palestine (of places of idolatrous worship) Another name of giv.on (גִּבְעוֹן "Gibeon" H1391)

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.