בָּמָה bamah

Hebrew word for “high place” · Strong’s H1116 · used 102 times in 92 verses

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Meaning

1) high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform);

How it is translated

Glosses given for bamah in context, with how often each is used:

• high places 83
• high place 18
• high place towards 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 23 (7), 1 Samuel 9 (5), 2 Kings 17 (4), 1 Kings 3 (3), 1 Kings 13 (3), 2 Chronicles 33 (3), 1 Samuel 10 (2), 2 Samuel 1 (2), 1 Kings 12 (2), 2 Kings 15 (2)

Forms

• הבמות 24
• במות 19
• בבמות 11
• הבמה 9
• במתי 7
• והבמות 4
• בבמה 3
• במתיו 3
• לבמות 3
• מהבמה 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with bamah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• קָטַר qatar “to offer” 16
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 14
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 17
• סוּר sur “to turn aside” 16
• אֲשֵׁרָה asherah “Asherah” 10
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 15
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 14
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 12
• רַק raq “except” 9
• עִיר ir “city” 15
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 13
• עוֹד od “still” 10

Key verses

The verses using bamah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:30 — 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.
• Deuteronomy 33:29 — Happy 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…
• 1 Kings 11:7 — Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the…
• 2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the…
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge…
• Psalms 78:58 — For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
• Isaiah 15:2 — He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every…
• Jeremiah 7:31 — And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I…
• Jeremiah 32:35 — And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto…
• Ezekiel 43:7 — And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for…
• Amos 4:13 — For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon…
• Micah 3:12 — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.