בָּמָה

ba.mah

Hebrew H1116 Noun, feminine 102 occurrences in 92 verses
בָּמָה high place

1. high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)

a. high place, mountain

b. high places, battlefields

c. high places (as places of worship)

d. funeral mound?

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Concordance 92 verses

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:15 לַבָּמ֖וֹת

    And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

  2. 2 Chronicles 14:3 וְהַבָּמ֑וֹת

    He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

  3. 2 Chronicles 14:5 הַבָּמ֖וֹת

    He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

  4. 2 Chronicles 15:17 וְהַ֨בָּמ֔וֹת

    The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.

  5. 2 Chronicles 17:6 הַבָּמ֥וֹת

    And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  6. 2 Chronicles 20:33 הַבָּמ֖וֹת

    The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

  7. 2 Chronicles 21:11 בָמ֖וֹת

    Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.

  8. 2 Chronicles 28:4 בַּבָּמ֖וֹת

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

  9. 2 Chronicles 28:25 בָמ֔וֹת

    In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

  10. 2 Chronicles 31:1 הַ֠בָּמוֹת

    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

  11. 2 Chronicles 32:12 בָּמֹתָ֖יו

    Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

  12. 2 Chronicles 33:3 הַבָּמ֔וֹת

    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

  13. 2 Chronicles 33:17 בַּבָּמ֑וֹת

    Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  14. 2 Chronicles 33:19 בָּמוֹת֙

    His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

  15. 2 Chronicles 34:3 הַבָּמוֹת֙

    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.

  16. Job 9:8 בָּ֥מֳתֵי

    He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

  17. Psalms 18:33 בָּ֝מֹתַ֗י

    He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

  18. Psalms 78:58 בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם

    They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

  19. Isaiah 14:14 בָּ֣מֳתֵי

    I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

  20. Isaiah 15:2 הַבָּמ֖וֹת

    Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

  21. Isaiah 16:12 הַבָּמָ֑ה

    When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

  22. Isaiah 36:7 בָּמֹתָ֣יו

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

  23. Isaiah 58:14 בָּ֣מֳותֵי

    then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

  24. Jeremiah 7:31 בָּמ֣וֹת

    They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

  25. Jeremiah 17:3 בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָ

    O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

  26. Jeremiah 19:5 בָּמ֣וֹת

    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

  27. Jeremiah 26:18 לְבָמ֥וֹת

    “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’

  28. Jeremiah 32:35 בָּמ֨וֹת

    They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

  29. Jeremiah 48:35 בָמָ֔ה

    In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.

  30. Ezekiel 6:3 בָּמֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

    You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

  31. Ezekiel 6:6 וְהַבָּמ֖וֹת

    Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

  32. Ezekiel 16:16 בָּמ֣וֹת

    You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

  33. Ezekiel 20:29 הַבָּמָ֔ה

    So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

  34. Ezekiel 36:2 וּבָמ֣וֹת

    This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

  35. Ezekiel 43:7 בָּמוֹתָֽם׃

    and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

  36. Hosea 10:8 בָּמ֣וֹת

    The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

  37. Amos 4:13 בָּ֣מֳתֵי

    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

  38. Amos 7:9 בָּמ֣וֹת

    The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”

  39. Micah 1:3 בָּמוֹתֵי

    For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

  40. Micah 1:5 בָּמ֣וֹת

    All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

  41. Micah 3:12 לְבָמ֥וֹת

    Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

  42. Habakkuk 3:19 בָּמוֹתַ֖י

    GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

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