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 images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.Numbers 21:28 · בָּמ֥וֹתFor there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the lords of the high places of Arnon.Numbers 33:52 · בָּמֹתָ֖םThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:Deuteronomy 32:13 · בָּ֣מֳתֵיHe made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; 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, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars 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 you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:1 Samuel 9:13 · הַבָּמָ֜תָהAs soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go 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 be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.1 Samuel 9:14 · הַבָּמָֽה׃ סAnd they went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for 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 to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thine heart.1 Samuel 9:25 · מֵהַבָּמָ֖הAnd when they were come down from the high place into the city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the top of the house.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 company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:1 Samuel 10:13 · הַבָּמָֽה׃And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.2 Samuel 1:19 · בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָThe beauty of 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! O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places.2 Samuel 22:34 · בָּמוֹתַ֖יHe maketh my feet like hinds’ [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places.1 Kings 3:2 · בַּבָּמ֑וֹתOnly the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.1 Kings 3:3 · בַּבָּמ֔וֹתAnd Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in 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 an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.1 Kings 12:31 · בָּמ֑וֹתAnd he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which 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 offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.1 Kings 13:2 · הַבָּמוֹת֙And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.1 Kings 13:32 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתFor the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, 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 of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.1 Kings 14:23 · בָּמ֥וֹתFor they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.1 Kings 15:14 · וְהַבָּמ֖וֹתBut the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.2 Kings 12:3 · הַבָּמ֖וֹת · בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃But 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: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.2 Kings 15:4 · הַבָּמ֖וֹת · בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.2 Kings 15:35 · הַבָּמוֹת֙ · בַּבָּמ֑וֹתHowbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.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 [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.2 Kings 17:11 · בָּמ֔וֹתAnd there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD 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 the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.2 Kings 18:4 · הַבָּמ֗וֹתHe removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen 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 the LORD our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?2 Kings 21:3 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתFor he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, 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 Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that [were] in the entering in 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 the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the 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 Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, 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 Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.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 [the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.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 returned to Jerusalem.1 Chronicles 16:39 · בַּבָּמָ֖הAnd Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that [was] at Gibeon,1 Chronicles 21:29 · בַּבָּמָ֖הFor the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon.2 Chronicles 1:3 · לַבָּמָ֖הSo Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.2 Chronicles 1:13 · לַבָּמָ֤הThen Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place that [was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.2 Chronicles 11:15 · לַבָּמ֖וֹתAnd he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.2 Chronicles 14:3 · וְהַבָּמ֑וֹתFor he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:2 Chronicles 14:5 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתAlso he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the 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 the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.2 Chronicles 20:33 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתHowbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.2 Chronicles 21:11 · בָמ֖וֹתMoreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].2 Chronicles 28:4 · בַּבָּמ֖וֹתHe sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.2 Chronicles 28:25 · בָמ֔וֹתAnd in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD 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 the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly 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 burn incense upon it?2 Chronicles 33:3 · הַבָּמ֔וֹתFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.2 Chronicles 33:17 · בַּבָּמ֑וֹתNevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the LORD their God only.2 Chronicles 33:19 · בָּמוֹת֙His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.Job 9:8 · בָּ֥מֳתֵיWhich alone spreadeth 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 be like the most High.Isaiah 15:2 · הַבָּמ֖וֹתHe is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off.Isaiah 16:12 · הַבָּמָ֑הAnd it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.Isaiah 36:7 · בָּמֹתָ֣יוBut if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?Isaiah 58:14 · בָּ֣מֳתֵיThen shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].Jeremiah 7:31 · בָּמ֣וֹתAnd they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.Jeremiah 17:3 · בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָO my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.Jeremiah 19:5 · בָּמ֣וֹתThey have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind:Jeremiah 26:18 · לְבָמ֥וֹתMicah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] 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 the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, 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, The LORD, 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, the LORD 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 the forest.Habakkuk 3:19 · בָּמוֹתַ֖יThe LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.