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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1116

בָּמָה

bamahbam-maw'

high place

102 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bâmâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1116is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 18 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 61
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1116

an elevation

The King James renders it: height, high place, wave.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

bamah is rendered "high place". It stands 102 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.

  • Twenty-seven of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
  • The Greek text spells it sixty-one different ways.

The first use

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Leviticus 26:30בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-seven of the word's 102 uses are in 2 Kings.

The other 21 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the high places24
  • high places of14
  • at the high places11
  • high places11
  • the high place9
  • high places your5
  • and the high places4
  • high places his3
  • high places my3
  • high places their3
  • a high place2
  • at the high place2

and 8 more, 102 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 102, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

61 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַבָּמ֖וֹת8
  • בָּמ֣וֹת7
  • בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃4
  • בָּ֣מֳתֵי4
  • הַבָּמ֔וֹת4
  • בַּבָּמ֑וֹת3
  • בָמ֔וֹת3
  • הַבָּמוֹת֙3
  • הַבָּמ֗וֹת3
  • בַּבָּמָ֖ה2
  • בַּבָּמ֖וֹת2
  • בָּמ֥וֹת2

and 49 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural24HTd/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)14HNcfpc
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural12HRd/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine plural11HNcfpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular9HTd/Ncfsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular5HRd/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural4HC/Td/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HNcfpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HNcfpc/Sp2ms
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HNcfpc/Sp3mp
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcfpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural2HNcfpc/Sp2mp

Leviticus

one use
  • I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    Leviticus 26:30

    • בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗םbamoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: high places your

Numbers

two uses
  • For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

    Numbers 21:28

    • בָּמ֥וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

    Numbers 33:52

    • בָּמֹתָ֖םbamotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: high places their

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

    Deuteronomy 32:13

    • בָּ֣מֳתֵיbamoteinoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

    Deuteronomy 33:29

    • בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹbamoteimovnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: high places their

1 Samuel

seven uses
  • “Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.

    1 Samuel 9:12

    • בַּבָּמָֽה׃babamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: at the high place
  • As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”

    1 Samuel 9:13

    • הַבָּמָ֜תָהhabamatahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the high place towards
  • So Saul and his servant went up toward the city, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel coming toward them on his way up to the high place.

    1 Samuel 9:14

    • הַבָּמָֽה׃ סhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
  • “I am the seer,” Samuel replied. “Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today. And when I send you off in the morning, I will tell you all that is in your heart.

    1 Samuel 9:19

    • הַבָּמָ֔הhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
  • And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.

    1 Samuel 9:25

    • מֵהַבָּמָ֖הmehabamahpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: from the high place
  • After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

    1 Samuel 10:5

    • מֵֽהַבָּמָ֔הmehabamahpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: from the high place
  • And when Saul had finished prophesying, he went up to the high place.

    1 Samuel 10:13

    • הַבָּמָֽה׃habamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place

2 Samuel

three uses
  • “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

    2 Samuel 1:19

    • בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָbamoteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: high places your
  • How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

    2 Samuel 1:25

    • בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָbamoteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: high places your
  • He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

    2 Samuel 22:34

    • בָּמוֹתַ֖יbamotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: high places my

1 Kings

fourteen uses
  • The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

    1 Kings 3:2

    • בַּבָּמ֑וֹתbabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    1 Kings 3:3

    • בַּבָּמ֔וֹתbabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

    1 Kings 3:4

    • הַבָּמָ֣הhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
  • At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.

    1 Kings 11:7

    • בָּמָ֗הbamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a high place
  • Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

    1 Kings 12:31

    • בָּמ֑וֹתbamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

    1 Kings 12:32

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

    1 Kings 13:2

    • הַבָּמוֹת֙habamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

    1 Kings 13:32

    • הַבָּמ֔וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.

    1 Kings 13:33

    • בָמ֔וֹתvamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
    • בָמֽוֹת׃vamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

    1 Kings 14:23

    • בָּמ֥וֹתbamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

    1 Kings 15:14

    • וְהַבָּמ֖וֹתvehabamotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the high places
  • And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    1 Kings 22:43

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
    • בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃babamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places

2 Kings

twenty-seven uses
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    2 Kings 12:3

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
    • בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃babamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

    2 Kings 14:4

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
    • בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃babamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

    2 Kings 15:4

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
    • בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃babamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 15:35

    • הַבָּמוֹת֙habamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
    • בַּבָּמ֑וֹתbabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    2 Kings 16:4

    • בַּבָּמ֖וֹתbabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

    2 Kings 17:9

    • בָּמוֹת֙bamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

    2 Kings 17:11

    • בָּמ֔וֹתbamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

    2 Kings 17:29

    • הַבָּמ֗וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.

    2 Kings 17:32

    • בָמ֔וֹתvamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
    • הַבָּמֽוֹת׃habamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

    2 Kings 18:4

    • הַבָּמ֗וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

    2 Kings 18:22

    • בָּמֹתָ֣יוbamotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: high places his
  • For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

    2 Kings 21:3

    • הַבָּמ֔וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

    2 Kings 23:5

    • בַּבָּמוֹת֙babamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.

    2 Kings 23:8

    • הַבָּמ֗וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

    2 Kings 23:9

    • הַבָּמ֔וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

    2 Kings 23:13

    • הַבָּמ֞וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

    2 Kings 23:15

    • הַבָּמָה֙habamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
    • הַבָּמָ֖הhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
    • הַבָּמָ֛הhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
  • Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.

    2 Kings 23:19

    • הַבָּמ֜וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Kings 23:20

    • הַבָּמ֤וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

    1 Chronicles 16:39

    • בַּבָּמָ֖הbabamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: at the high place
  • For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

    1 Chronicles 21:29

    • בַּבָּמָ֖הbabamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the high place

2 Chronicles

seventeen uses
  • And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

    2 Chronicles 1:3

    • לַבָּמָ֖הlabamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the high place
  • So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

    2 Chronicles 1:13

    • לַבָּמָ֤הlabamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the high place
  • And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

    2 Chronicles 11:15

    • לַבָּמ֖וֹתlabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: for the high places
  • He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

    2 Chronicles 14:3

    • וְהַבָּמ֑וֹתvehabamotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the high places
  • He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

    2 Chronicles 14:5

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.

    2 Chronicles 15:17

    • וְהַ֨בָּמ֔וֹתvehabamotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the high places
  • And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

    2 Chronicles 17:6

    • הַבָּמ֥וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

    2 Chronicles 20:33

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.

    2 Chronicles 21:11

    • בָמ֖וֹתvamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    2 Chronicles 28:4

    • בַּבָּמ֖וֹתbabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

    2 Chronicles 28:25

    • בָמ֔וֹתvamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

    2 Chronicles 31:1

    • הַ֠בָּמוֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

    2 Chronicles 32:12

    • בָּמֹתָ֖יוbamotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: high places his
  • For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

    2 Chronicles 33:3

    • הַבָּמ֔וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

    2 Chronicles 33:17

    • בַּבָּמ֑וֹתbabamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the high places
  • His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

    2 Chronicles 33:19

    • בָּמוֹת֙bamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

    2 Chronicles 34:3

    • הַבָּמוֹת֙habamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places

Job

one use
  • He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

    Job 9:8

    • בָּ֥מֳתֵיbomoteinoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of

Psalms

two uses
  • He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

    Psalms 18:33

    • בָּ֝מֹתַ֗יbamotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: high places my
  • They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

    Psalms 78:58

    • בְּבָמוֹתָ֑םbevamotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by high places their

Isaiah

five uses
  • I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

    Isaiah 14:14

    • בָּ֣מֳתֵיbomoteinoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

    Isaiah 15:2

    • הַבָּמ֖וֹתhabamotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the high places
  • When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

    Isaiah 16:12

    • הַבָּמָ֑הhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
  • But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

    Isaiah 36:7

    • בָּמֹתָ֣יוbamotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: high places his
  • then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

    Isaiah 58:14

    • בָּ֣מֳתֵיbamoteinoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of

Jeremiah

six uses
  • They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

    Jeremiah 7:31

    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

    Jeremiah 17:3

    • בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָbamoteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: high places your
  • They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

    Jeremiah 19:5

    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’

    Jeremiah 26:18

    • לְבָמ֥וֹתlevamotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into high places of
  • They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

    Jeremiah 32:35

    • בָּמ֨וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.

    Jeremiah 48:35

    • בָמָ֔הvamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a high place

Ezekiel

six uses
  • You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

    Ezekiel 6:3

    • בָּמֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃bamoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: high places your
  • Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

    Ezekiel 6:6

    • וְהַבָּמ֖וֹתvehabamotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the high places
  • You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

    Ezekiel 16:16

    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: high places
  • So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

    Ezekiel 20:29

    • הַבָּמָ֔הhabamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the high place
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

    Ezekiel 36:2

    • וּבָמ֣וֹתuvamotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and high places of
  • and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

    Ezekiel 43:7

    • בָּמוֹתָֽם׃bamotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: high places their

Hosea

one use
  • The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

    Hosea 10:8

    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of

Amos

two uses
  • For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

    Amos 4:13

    • בָּ֣מֳתֵיbomoteinoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”

    Amos 7:9

    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of

Micah

three uses
  • For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

    Micah 1:3

    • בָּ֥מֳתֵיbamoteinoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

    Micah 1:5

    • בָּמ֣וֹתbamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: high places of
  • Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

    Micah 3:12

    • לְבָמ֥וֹתlevamotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into high places of

Habakkuk

one use
  • GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

    Habakkuk 3:19

    • בָּמוֹתַ֖יbamotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: high places my

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