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:
Micah 1:5: "is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?"
Micah 3:12: "heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest."
Habakkuk 3:19: "like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments."
