H1116: בָּמָה
bâmâh · pronounced bam-maw' · “high place”
Definition
an elevation
KJV translates it as: height, high place, wave.
Word origin: from an unused root (meaning to be high);
Extended definition
1a) high place, mountain
1b) high places, battlefields
1c) high places (as places of worship)
1d) funeral mound?
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1116 is translated
- high places ×49
- high place ×16
- the high places of ×14
- your ×5
- their ×4
- my ×3
- his ×3
- a high place ×2
- the high places ×2
- high places of ×2
- towards ×1
- are the high places of ×1
Bible verses with H1116 (bâmâh)
Bâmâh appears in 92 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Leviticus 26:30
And 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
For 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
Then 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
He 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
Happy 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
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
As 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
And 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
And 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
And 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
After 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
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
- 2 Samuel 1:19
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
- 2 Samuel 1:25
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
- 2 Samuel 22:34
He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
- 1 Kings 3:2
Only 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
And 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
And 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
Then 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
And 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
And 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 Beth–el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth–el the priests of the high places which he had made.
- 1 Kings 13:2
And 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
For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord 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
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
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
All 92 references
- 1 Kings 15:14
- 1 Kings 22:43
- 2 Kings 12:3
- 2 Kings 14:4
- 2 Kings 15:4
- 2 Kings 15:35
- 2 Kings 16:4
- 2 Kings 17:9
- 2 Kings 17:11
- 2 Kings 17:29
- 2 Kings 17:32
- 2 Kings 18:4
- 2 Kings 18:22
- 2 Kings 21:3
- 2 Kings 23:5
- 2 Kings 23:8
- 2 Kings 23:9
- 2 Kings 23:13
- 2 Kings 23:15
- 2 Kings 23:19
- 2 Kings 23:20
- 1 Chronicles 16:39
- 1 Chronicles 21:29
- 2 Chronicles 1:3
- 2 Chronicles 1:13
- 2 Chronicles 11:15
- 2 Chronicles 14:3
- 2 Chronicles 14:5
- 2 Chronicles 15:17
- 2 Chronicles 17:6
- 2 Chronicles 20:33
- 2 Chronicles 21:11
- 2 Chronicles 28:4
- 2 Chronicles 28:25
- 2 Chronicles 31:1
- 2 Chronicles 32:12
- 2 Chronicles 33:3
- 2 Chronicles 33:17
- 2 Chronicles 33:19
- 2 Chronicles 34:3
- Job 9:8
- Psalms 18:33
- Psalms 78:58
- Isaiah 14:14
- Isaiah 15:2
- Isaiah 16:12
- Isaiah 36:7
- Isaiah 58:14
- Jeremiah 7:31
- Jeremiah 17:3
- Jeremiah 19:5
- Jeremiah 26:18
- Jeremiah 32:35
- Jeremiah 48:35
- Ezekiel 6:3
- Ezekiel 6:6
- Ezekiel 16:16
- Ezekiel 20:29
- Ezekiel 36:2
- Ezekiel 43:7
- Hosea 10:8
- Amos 4:13
- Amos 7:9
- Micah 1:3
- Micah 1:5
- Micah 3:12
- Habakkuk 3:19