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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H1116 — בָּמָה
ba.mah · high place · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Leviticus 26:30 · בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗םAnd I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.Numbers 21:28 · בָּמ֥וֹתFor a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.Numbers 33:52 · בָּמֹתָ֖םthen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:Deuteronomy 32:13 · בָּ֣מֳתֵיHe made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;Deuteronomy 33:29 · בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹHappy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.1 Samuel 9:12 · בַּבָּמָֽה׃And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before thee: make haste now, for he is come to-day into the city; for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place.1 Samuel 9:13 · הַבָּמָ֜תָהAs soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goeth up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are bidden. Now therefore get you up; for at this time ye shall find him.1 Samuel 9:14 · הַבָּמָֽה׃ סAnd they went up to the city; and as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.1 Samuel 9:19 · הַבָּמָ֔הAnd Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat with me to-day: and in the morning I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart.1 Samuel 9:25 · מֵהַבָּמָ֖הAnd when they were come down from the high place into the city, he communed with Saul upon the housetop.1 Samuel 10:5 · מֵֽהַבָּמָ֔הAfter that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:1 Samuel 10:13 · הַבָּמָֽה׃And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.2 Samuel 1:19 · בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָThy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!2 Samuel 1:25 · בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָHow are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.2 Samuel 22:34 · בָּמוֹתַ֖יHe maketh his feet like hinds’ feet, And setteth me upon my high places.1 Kings 3:2 · בַּבָּמ֑וֹתOnly the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.1 Kings 3:3 · בַּבָּמ֔וֹתAnd Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.1 Kings 3:4 · הַבָּמָ֣הAnd the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.1 Kings 11:7 · בָּמָ֗הThen did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.1 Kings 12:31 · בָּמ֑וֹתAnd he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.1 Kings 12:32 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made.1 Kings 13:2 · הַבָּמוֹת֙And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall they burn upon thee.1 Kings 13:32 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתFor the saying which he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.1 Kings 13:33 · בָמ֔וֹת · בָמֽוֹת׃After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.1 Kings 14:23 · בָּמ֥וֹתFor they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;1 Kings 15:14 · וְהַבָּמ֖וֹתBut the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.2 Kings 12:3 · הַבָּמ֖וֹת · בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.2 Kings 14:4 · הַבָּמ֖וֹת · בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.2 Kings 15:4 · הַבָּמ֖וֹת · בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.2 Kings 15:35 · הַבָּמוֹת֙ · בַּבָּמ֑וֹתHowbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.2 Kings 16:4 · בַּבָּמ֖וֹתAnd he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.2 Kings 17:9 · בָּמוֹת֙And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;2 Kings 17:11 · בָּמ֔וֹתand there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;2 Kings 17:29 · הַבָּמ֗וֹתHowbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.2 Kings 17:32 · בָמ֔וֹת · הַבָּמֽוֹת׃So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.2 Kings 18:4 · הַבָּמ֗וֹתHe removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.2 Kings 18:22 · בָּמֹתָ֣יוBut if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?2 Kings 21:3 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.2 Kings 23:5 · בַּבָּמוֹת֙And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.2 Kings 23:8 · הַבָּמ֗וֹת · בָּמ֣וֹתAnd he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.2 Kings 23:9 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתNevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.2 Kings 23:13 · הַבָּמ֞וֹתAnd the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.2 Kings 23:15 · הַבָּמָה֙ · הַבָּמָ֖ה · הַבָּמָ֛הMoreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.2 Kings 23:19 · הַבָּמ֜וֹתAnd all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.2 Kings 23:20 · הַבָּמ֤וֹתAnd he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.1 Chronicles 16:39 · בַּבָּמָ֖הand Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah in the high place that was at Gibeon,1 Chronicles 21:29 · בַּבָּמָ֖הFor the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.2 Chronicles 1:3 · לַבָּמָ֖הSo Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness.2 Chronicles 1:13 · לַבָּמָ֤הSo Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, unto Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.2 Chronicles 11:15 · לַבָּמ֖וֹתand he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.2 Chronicles 14:3 · וְהַבָּמ֑וֹתfor he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,2 Chronicles 14:5 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתAlso he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.2 Chronicles 15:17 · וְהַ֨בָּמ֔וֹתBut the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.2 Chronicles 17:6 · הַבָּמ֥וֹתAnd his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.2 Chronicles 20:33 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתHowbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.2 Chronicles 21:11 · בָמ֖וֹתMoreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.2 Chronicles 28:4 · בַּבָּמ֖וֹתAnd he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.2 Chronicles 28:25 · בָמ֔וֹתAnd in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.2 Chronicles 31:1 · הַ֠בָּמוֹתNow when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.2 Chronicles 32:12 · בָּמֹתָ֖יוHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye burn incense?2 Chronicles 33:3 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.2 Chronicles 33:17 · בַּבָּמ֑וֹתNevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only unto Jehovah their God.2 Chronicles 33:19 · בָּמוֹת֙His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.2 Chronicles 34:3 · הַבָּמוֹת֙For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.Job 9:8 · בָּ֥מֳתֵיThat alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;Psalm 18:33 · בָּ֝מֹתַ֗יHe maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: And setteth me upon my high places.Psalm 78:58 · בְּבָמוֹתָ֑םFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.Isaiah 14:14 · בָּ֣מֳתֵיI will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.Isaiah 15:2 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתThey are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.Isaiah 16:12 · הַבָּמָ֑הAnd it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.Isaiah 36:7 · בָּמֹתָ֣יוBut if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?Isaiah 58:14 · בָּ֣מֳתֵיthen shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.Jeremiah 7:31 · בָּמ֣וֹתAnd they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.Jeremiah 17:3 · בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָO my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.Jeremiah 19:5 · בָּמ֣וֹתand have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:Jeremiah 26:18 · לְבָמ֥וֹתMicah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.Jeremiah 32:35 · בָּמ֨וֹתAnd they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.Jeremiah 48:35 · בָמָ֔הMoreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth incense to his gods.Hosea 10:8 · בָּמ֣וֹתThe high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.Amos 4:13 · בָּ֣מֳתֵיFor, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth—Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.Amos 7:9 · בָּמ֣וֹתand the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.Micah 1:3 · בָּ֥מֳתֵיFor, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.Micah 1:5 · בָּמ֣וֹתFor the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?Micah 3:12 · לְבָמ֥וֹתTherefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.Habakkuk 3:19 · בָּמוֹתַ֖יJehovah, the Lord, is my strength; And he maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, And will make me to walk upon my high places.