בָּמָה
ba.mah
“high place”
Definition
an elevation
from an unused root (meaning to be high);
- 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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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
בָּמָה appears 87 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
So Saul and his servant went up toward the city, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel coming toward them on his way up to the high place.
In 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.
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.”
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