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:
2 Kings 23:9: "Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD"
2 Kings 23:13: " And the high places that Jerusalem, which were on the right hand"
2 Kings 23:15: "that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat,"
2 Kings 23:15: "that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place,"
2 Kings 23:15: "he broke down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove."
2 Kings 23:19: "all also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which"
2 Kings 23:20: "the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars,"
1 Chronicles 16:39: "before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,"
1 Chronicles 21:29: "of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon."
2 Chronicles 1:3: "with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there"
2 Chronicles 1:13: "Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before"
2 Chronicles 11:15: "And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made."
2 Chronicles 14:3: "of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down"
2 Chronicles 14:5: "out of all of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet"
2 Chronicles 15:17: " But the high places were not out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa"
2 Chronicles 17:6: "moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah."
2 Chronicles 20:33: "Howbeit the high places taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared"
2 Chronicles 21:11: "Moreover he high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants"
2 Chronicles 28:4: "He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green"
2 Chronicles 28:25: "several city he made high places to burn incense unto other gods,"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all"
2 Chronicles 32:12: "taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem,"
2 Chronicles 33:3: "For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down,"
2 Chronicles 33:17: "the people still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only."
2 Chronicles 33:19: "and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before"
2 Chronicles 34:3: "Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images."
Job 9:8: "and treadeth upon the waves of the sea."
Psalms 18:33: "feet, and setteth me upon my high places."
Psalms 78:58: "For they provoked him to anger with their high places, with their graven images."
Isaiah 14:14: "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
Isaiah 15:2: "He is gone up to Bajith, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over"
Isaiah 16:12: "Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray;"
Isaiah 36:7: "he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said"
Isaiah 58:14: "the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob"
Jeremiah 7:31: "And they have built the high places which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn"
Jeremiah 17:3: "and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders."
Jeremiah 19:5: "They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire"
Jeremiah 26:18: "shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest."
Jeremiah 32:35: "And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom,"
Jeremiah 48:35: "the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods."
Ezekiel 6:3: "a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places."
Ezekiel 6:6: "your dwelling places shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste"
Ezekiel 16:16: "And of thy garments thou didst take, thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot thereupon:"
Ezekiel 20:29: "Then I said unto is the high place whereunto ye go?"
Ezekiel 36:2: "against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:"
Ezekiel 43:7: "nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places."
Hosea 10:8: " The high places also of Aven, of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up"
Amos 4:13: "darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts,"
Amos 7:9: " And the high places of Isaac and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against"
Micah 1:3: "out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth."
