Strong's #1116: bamah (pronounced bam-maw')
from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation:--height, high place, wave.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bâmâh
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?
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from an unused root (meaning to be high)
Usage:
This word is used 103 times:
Leviticus 26:30: "And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast"
Numbers 21:28: "of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon."
Numbers 22:41: "Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see"
Numbers 33:52: "their molten images and quite pluck down all their high places:"
Deuteronomy 32:13: "He 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"
Deuteronomy 33:29: "unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places."
1 Samuel 9:12: "there is a sacrifice of the people today in the high place:"
1 Samuel 9:13: "find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not"
1 Samuel 9:14: "came out against them, for to go up to the high place."
1 Samuel 9:19: "am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me today, and tomorrow"
1 Samuel 9:25: "And when they were come down from the high place from the high place Samuel communed with Saul upon"
1 Samuel 10:5: "to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place from the high place with a psaltery,"
1 Samuel 10:13: "And when he had made an end of prophesying, to the high place."
2 Samuel 1:19: "of Israel upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!"
2 Samuel 1:25: "O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places."
2 Samuel 22:34: "feet: and setteth me upon my high places."
1 Kings 3:2: "Only the people in high places, because there was no house built"
1 Kings 3:3: "he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places."
1 Kings 3:4: "for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer"
1 Kings 11:7: "Then did Solomon a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill"
1 Kings 12:31: "And he made of high places, and made priests of the lowest"
1 Kings 12:32: "and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made."
1 Kings 13:2: "thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones"
1 Kings 13:32: "and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass."
1 Kings 13:33: "but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would,"
1 Kings 13:33: "priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests"
1 Kings 14:23: "For they also them high places, and images, and groves, on every"
1 Kings 15:14: " But the high places were not nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect"
1 Kings 22:43: "that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people"
1 Kings 22:43: "for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places."
2 Kings 12:3: "But the high places taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense"
2 Kings 12:3: "still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places."
2 Kings 14:4: "Howbeit the high places taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense"
2 Kings 14:4: "the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places."
2 Kings 15:4: "Save that the high places removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still"
2 Kings 15:4: "sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places."
2 Kings 15:35: "Howbeit the high places removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still"
2 Kings 15:35: "sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher"
2 Kings 16:4: "And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green"
2 Kings 17:9: "the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower"
2 Kings 17:11: "And there they burnt incense the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away"
2 Kings 17:29: "made of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,"
2 Kings 17:32: "and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses"
2 Kings 17:32: "unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places."
2 Kings 18:4: "He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down"
2 Kings 18:22: "that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said"
2 Kings 21:3: "For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed;"
2 Kings 23:5: "of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem;"
2 Kings 23:8: "out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests"
2 Kings 23:8: "from Geba to Beer-sheba, and broke down the high places of the gates"
