Bamah בָּמָה

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Bamah
בָּמָה
Transliterationbamah
Strong's numberH1116
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glosshigh place
Occurrences102 in 92 verses
Most frequent in2 Kings (19)

Bamah (Hebrew בָּמָה, Strong's H1116) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “high place”. It occurs 102 times in 92 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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?

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVplaces (82), place (18), waves (1), heights (1)
BSBhigh places (53), high place (16), heights (8), your high places (3), their high places (3), your heights (2), whose high places (2), ridge (2), his high places (1), waves (1), tops (1), its high places (1), and 3 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Bamah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Job

Psalms

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Hosea

Amos

Micah

Habakkuk

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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