H1116 בּמה - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Number


בּמה
bâmâh
baw-maw'
From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation

KJV Usage: height, high place, wave.


Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions

BDB1157

בּמה

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?
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be high)
TWOT: 253
Parts of Speech: Noun Feminine
TBESH:
בָּמָה
ba.mah
H:N-F
high place
1) 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?

View how H1116 בּמה is used in the Bible

First 30 of 102 occurrences of H1116 בּמה

Leviticus 26:30 your high places,
Numbers 22:41 to the high places
Numbers 33:52 all their high places:
Deuteronomy 32:13 on the high places
Deuteronomy 33:29 upon their high places.
1 Samuel 9:12 in the high place:
1 Samuel 9:13 to the high place
1 Samuel 9:14 to the high place.
1 Samuel 9:19 me to the high place;
1 Samuel 9:25 from the high place
1 Samuel 10:5 from the high place
1 Samuel 10:13 to the high place.
2 Samuel 1:19 upon thy high places:
2 Samuel 1:25 in thy high places.
2 Samuel 22:34 me upon my high places.
1 Kings 3:2 in high places,
1 Kings 3:3 in high places.
1 Kings 3:4 high place:
1 Kings 11:7 an high place
1 Kings 12:31 of high places,
1 Kings 12:32 of the high places
1 Kings 13:2 of the high places
1 Kings 13:32 of the high places
1 Kings 13:33 of the high places:
1 Kings 13:33 of the high places.
1 Kings 14:23 for themselves high places,
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places
1 Kings 22:43 nevertheless the high places
1 Kings 22:43 yet in the high places.
2 Kings 12:3 But the high places

Distinct usage

10 the high places
6 of the high places
5 But the high places
3 in the high places,
3 high places
3 upon the high places
3 And the high places
2 to the high place
2 to the high place.
2 from the high place
2 me upon my high places.
2 of the high places.
2 the high places,
2 as the high places
2 in the high place
1 to the high places
1 on the high places
1 in thy high places.
1 in high places,
1 in high places.
1 high place:
1 of high places,
1 for themselves high places,
1 nevertheless the high places
1 yet in the high places.
1 in the high places.
1 on the high places.
1 Except that the high places
1 still on the high places.
1 Yet the high places
1 still in the high places.
1 of the high places,
1 in the high places
1 and the high place
1 and the high place
1 the high place,
1 also of the high places
1 for the high places,
1 still in the high places,
1 from the high places,
1 upon the waves
1 above the heights
1 on the high place,
1 and thy high places
1 thy high places
1 to them, What is the high place
1 upon my high places.
1 gods, and the high places,
1 and what are the high places
1 for themselves high places
1 in the high place:
1 me to the high place;
1 an high place
1 on all the high places,
1 is not that he, whose high places
1 his high places
1 is it not he, whose high places
1 all their high places:
1 from his journey to the high place
1 upon their high places.

Corresponding Greek Words

bamah G18 agathos
bamah G1015 bounos
bamah G1041 bomos
bamah G1497 eidolon
bamah G2048 eremos
bamah G2379 thusiasterion
bamah G2479 ischus
bamah G5308 hupselos
bamah G5311 hupsos
bammah G5101 tis *
chavmah G144 aisthesis

Related words

H1116

H173 אהליבמה 'ohŏlı̂ybâmâh
אהליבמה
'ohŏlı̂ybâmâh
o''-hol-e-baw-maw'
From H168 and H1116; tent of (the) height; Oholibamah, a wife of Esau

KJV Usage: Aholibamah.


H1117 בּמה bâmâh
בּמה
bâmâh
baw-maw'
The same as H1116; Bamah, a place in Palestine

KJV Usage: Bamah. See also H1120.


H1120 בּמות בּעל בּמות bâmôth bâmôth ba‛al
בּמות בּעל בּמות
bâmôth bâmôth ba‛al
baw-moth', baw-moth' bah'-al
Plural of H1116; heights; the second form is a more complete form of the first form; from the same and H1168; heights of Baal; Bamoth or Bamoth Baal, a place East of the Jordan

KJV Usage: Bamoth, Bamoth-baal.


H1181 בּעלי בּמות ba‛ălêy bâmôth
בּעלי בּמות
ba‛ălêy bâmôth
bah-al-ay' baw-moth
From the plural of H1168 and the plural of H1116; Baals of (the) heights; Baale Bamoth, a place East of the Jordan

KJV Usage: lords of the high places.