Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1116: בָּמָה (bâmâh) Definition

Strong's number
H1116
Lemma
בָּמָה
Transliteration
bâmâh
Pronunciation
bam-maw'
Strong's definition
an elevation height, high place, wave. from an unused root (meaning to be high);

93 instances of the word בָּמָה bâmâh (H1116)


  • 2 Kings 15:35 - Howbeit the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burned incense Howbeit the high places He built gate of the house of the LORD the higher

  • 2 Kings 16:4 - And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills tree and under every green

  • 2 Kings 17:9 - did secretly And the children of Israel those things that were not right against the LORD their God and they built them high places city from the tower of the watchmen city to the fenced

  • 2 Kings 17:11 - And there they burnt incense in all the high places as did the heathen carried away to provoke the LORD before them and wrought things wicked to anger to provoke the LORD

  • 2 Kings 17:29 - had made Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation gods of their own and put them in the houses of the high places had made which the Samaritans Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt

  • 2 Kings 17:32 - the LORD and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places and made for them in the houses of the high places

  • 2 Kings 18:4 - He removed the high places and brake the images and cut down the groves and brake in pieces serpent the brasen had made that Moses for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it and he called it Nehushtan

  • 2 Kings 18:22 - But if ye say in the LORD our God unto me We trust hath taken away Hezekiah is not that he whose high places and whose altars But if ye say to Judah and Jerusalem before and whose altars Ye shall worship and Jerusalem

  • 2 Kings 21:3 - again For he built up the high places had destroyed which Hezekiah his father and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove and made Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served

  • 2 Kings 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests had ordained whom the kings of Judah them also that burned 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 - And he brought all the priests of the city of Judah and defiled the high places had burned incense all the priests from Geba to Beersheba and brake down the high places at the gate that were in the entering in at the gate of Joshua the governor of the city left hand which were on a man's at the gate of the city

  • 2 Kings 23:9 - came not up Nevertheless the priests of the high places to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren

  • 2 Kings 23:13 - And the high places that were before Jerusalem which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption had builded which Solomon did the king of Israel 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 defile did the king

  • 2 Kings 23:15 - Moreover the altar that was at Bethel and the high place had made which Jeroboam the son of Nebat to sin who made Israel Moreover the altar and the high place he brake down and burned and the high place and stamped it small to powder and burned the grove

  • 2 Kings 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria and did which the kings of Israel to provoke the LORD to anger took away Josiah and did to them according to all the acts and did in Bethel

  • 2 Kings 23:20 - And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars and burned bones men's upon them and returned to Jerusalem

  • 2 Samuel 1:19 - The beauty of Israel upon thy high places is slain fallen how are the mighty

  • 2 Samuel 1:25 - fallen How are the mighty in the midst of the battle O Jonathan in thine high places thou wast slain

  • 2 Samuel 22:34 - He maketh my feet hinds me upon my high places feet and setteth

  • Amos 4:13 - For 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