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 |
Page 2 of 2. 92 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
Read word by wordHe removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.2
He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.4
The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.
Read word by wordAnd his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
Read word by wordThe high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
Read word by wordJehoram 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.
Read word by wordAnd he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Read word by wordIn 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordDid 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’?
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
Read word by wordHis 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.
Read word by wordIn 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.
Read word by wordHe alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
Read word by wordHe makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.34
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
Read word by wordI will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Read word by wordDibon 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.
Read word by wordWhen Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
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’?
Read word by wordthen 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.
Read word by wordThey have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
Read word by wordO 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.
Read word by wordThey 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.
Read word by word“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.’
Read word by wordThey have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-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.
Read word by wordIn Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordWherever 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.
Read word by wordYou 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!
Read word by wordSo I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordThe 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!”
Read word by wordFor 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.”
Read word by wordThe 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.”
Read word by wordFor behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
Read word by wordAll 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?
Read word by wordTherefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
Read word by wordGOD 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.
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