BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1116
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?
85 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7413
ra.mah — high place
1) height, high place 1a) as place of illicit worship
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4791
ma.rom — height
1) height 1a) height, elevation, elevated place 1a1) in a high place (adv) 1b) height 1c) proudly (adv) 1d) of nobles (fig.)
49 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4869
mis.gav — high refuge
1) high place, refuge, secure height, retreat 1a) stronghold 1b) refuge (of God)
16 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8205
she.phi — bareness
1) bareness, smooth or bare height, bare place, high places, barren height 1a) bareness 1b) bare place, bare height
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H173
o.ho.li.va.mah — Oholibamah
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.2; her mother was Anah (H6034); married to Esau (H6215); mother of: Jeush (H3266), Jalam (H3281) and Korah (H7141) § Aholibamah = "tent of the high place" 1) wife of Esau 2) an Edomite chieftain
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5011
nov — Nob
§ Nob = "high place" a priestly city in the Benjamin situated on some eminence north but near Jerusalem
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1120
ba.mot — Bamoth
§ Bamoth = "high places" or "great high place" a town on the river Arnon in Moab
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4792
me.rom — Merom
§ Merom = "high place" the lake in northern Canaan at which Joshua routed the northern confederacy headed by Jabin 1a) site uncertain; probably the lake formed by the Jordan river about 10 miles (16 km) north of the Sea of Galilee
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7434
ra.mat ham.mits.peh — Ramath-mizpeh
Ramath-mizpeh = "high place of the watch tower" a place in Gilead on the northern border of Gad Another name of ra.mot gi.l.ad (רָמֹת "Ramoth" H7433)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G21275
huperallomai — leap to a high place
Dep.:—; to leap over or beyond , with genitive, (Iliad by Homer); also with accusative, (Iliad by Homer); so (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1117
ba.mah — Bamah
Bamah = "high place" a place in Palestine (of places of idolatrous worship) Another name of giv.on (גִּבְעוֹן "Gibeon" H1391)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1181
ba.a.le ba.mot — Baal-bamothite
Baale-bamoth = "the lords of the high places" the people of Arnon, east of Jordan
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H25
a.vi giv.on — Abi-gibeon
Abi Gibon = "father of Gibeon" site of great Bamah, location of the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →An eminence, natural or artificial, where worship by sacrifice or offerings was made (1 Kings 13:32; 2 Kings 17:29). The first altar after the Flood was built on a mountain (Gen. 8:20). Abraham also built an altar on a mountain (12:7, 8). It was on a mountain in Gilead that Laban and Jacob offered sacrifices (31:54). After the Israelites entered the Promised Land they were strictly enjoined to overthrow the high places of the Canaanites (Ex. 34:13; Deut. 7:5; 12:2, 3), and they were forbidden to worship the Lord on high places (Deut. 12:11-14), and were enjoined to use but one altar for sacrifices (Lev. 17:3, 4; Deut. 12; 16:21). The injunction against high places was, however, very imperfectly obeyed, and we find again and again mention made of them (2 Kings 14:4; 15:4, 35:2 Chr. 15:17, etc.).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
