HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1120
בָּמוֹת
ba.mot — Bamoth
§ Bamoth = "high places" or "great high place" a town on the river Arnon in Moab
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Bamoth
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1181
בַּעֲלֵי בָּמוֹת
ba.a.le ba.mot — Baal-bamothite
Baale-bamoth = "the lords of the high places" the people of Arnon, east of Jordan
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Heights, the forty-seventh station of the Israelites (Num. 21:19, 20) in the territory of the Moabites.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.