Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1116

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Original: בּמה

Transliteration: bamah (bâmâh)

Phonetic: bam-maw'

BDB Definition:

high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)
1. high place, mountain
2. high places, battlefields
3. high places (as places of worship)
4. funeral mound?

Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be high)

TWOT entry: 253

Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

Strong's Definition: From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation: - height, high place, wave.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (102x)

Above The Heights (1x)

All Their High Places (1x)

Also Of The High Places (1x)

Also The High Places (1x)

An High Place (1x)

And The High Place (1x)

And The High Places (4x)

As The High Places (2x)

But The High Places (3x)

For The High Places (1x)

From The High Place (2x)

From The High Places (1x)

High Place (1x)

High Places (4x)

His High Places (1x)

Howbeit The High Places (3x)

In All The High Places (1x)

In High Places (2x)

In The High Place (3x)

In The High Places (5x)

In Their High Places (1x)

In Thine High Places (1x)

Into The High Places (1x)

Me Unto The High Place (1x)

Me Upon My High Places (2x)

Nevertheless The High Places (1x)

Not He, Whose High Places (1x)

Not That He, Whose High Places (1x)

Of High Places (1x)

Of The High Places (10x)

On The High Place (1x)

On The High Places (2x)

Save That The High Places (1x)

Still In The High Places (2x)

Still On The High Places (1x)

The High Place (3x)

The High Places (13x)

Them High Places (2x)

Thy High Places (2x)

To The High Place (5x)

Upon Mine High Places (1x)

Upon The High Places (3x)

Upon The Waves (1x)

Upon Their High Places (1x)

Upon Thy High Places (1x)

With Their High Places (1x)

Yet In The High Places (1x)

Your High Places (2x)

All Occurrences

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 22:41

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

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.(j)

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:(h)

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.(i)

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.(n)

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.(d)

(e)

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.(f)

(g)

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.(g)

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 22:43

And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord : nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

2 Kings 12:3

But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4

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

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

Howbeit 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

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:9

And 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.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H1116

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1116