בָּמָה (ba.mah) means “high place” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: bam-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
בָּמָה · ba.mah · high place
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?
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from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation
KJV glosses: height, high place, wave.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the high places | 24 |
| on the high places | 11 |
| high places | 7 |
| of the high places | 6 |
| the heights | 6 |
| to the high place | 5 |
| for the high places | 3 |
| from the high place | 3 |
| the high place | 3 |
| there | 3 |
| at the high place | 2 |
| heights | 2 |
| ridge | 2 |
| their high places | 2 |
| whose high places | 2 |
| your heights | 2 |
| your high places | 2 |
| a high place | 1 |
| and high places | 1 |
| and the high places | 1 |
| at its high places | 1 |
| at the high places | 1 |
| at their deaths | 1 |
| high place | 1 |
| his high places | 1 |
| is the high place | 1 |
| is this high place | 1 |
| it | 1 |
| of your high places | 1 |
| on the high place | 1 |
| the tops | 1 |
| the waves | 1 |
| with their high places | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the high places | 13 |
| of the high places | 10 |
| in the high places | 5 |
| to the high place | 5 |
| and the high places | 4 |
| high places | 4 |
| but the high places | 3 |
| howbeit the high places | 3 |
| in the high place | 3 |
| the high place | 3 |
| upon the high places | 3 |
| as the high places | 2 |
| from the high place | 2 |
| in high places | 2 |
| me upon my high places | 2 |
| on the high places | 2 |
| still in the high places | 2 |
| them high places | 2 |
| thy high places | 2 |
| your high places | 2 |
| above the heights | 1 |
| all their high places | 1 |
| also of the high places | 1 |
| also the high places | 1 |
| an high place | 1 |
| and the high place | 1 |
| for the high places | 1 |
| from the high places | 1 |
| high place | 1 |
| his high places | 1 |
| in all the high places | 1 |
| in their high places | 1 |
| in thine high places | 1 |
| into the high places | 1 |
| me unto the high place | 1 |
| nevertheless the high places | 1 |
| not he whose high places | 1 |
| not that he whose high places | 1 |
| of high places | 1 |
| on the high place | 1 |
| save that the high places | 1 |
| still on the high places | 1 |
| upon mine high places | 1 |
| upon the waves | 1 |
| upon their high places | 1 |
| upon thy high places | 1 |
| with their high places | 1 |
| yet in the high places | 1 |
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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.
Read word by wordFor a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
Read word by wordyou 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.
Read word by wordHe 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,
Read word by wordBlessed 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.”
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordAs 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.”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordAnd after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
Read word by wordAfter 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.
Read word by wordAnd when Saul had finished prophesying, he went up to the high place.
Read word by word“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Read word by wordHow the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Read word by wordHe makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
Read word by wordThe people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
Read word by wordAnd Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Read word by wordNow 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.
Read word by wordAt 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.
Read word by wordJeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.’”
Read word by wordfor 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.”
Read word by wordEven 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.
Read word by wordThey also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Read word by wordThe high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.4
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
Read word by wordNevertheless, 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.
Read word by wordAnd he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordThey 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.
Read word by wordNevertheless, 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.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordBut 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’?
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordJosiah 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordAlthough 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordJust 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.
Read word by wordOn the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordAnd David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
Read word by wordFor 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,
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordSo Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
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