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בָּמָה H1116

H1116 is the Hebrew word בָּמָה, transliterated bâmâh and said bam-maw'. The King James Version most often renders it high places.

Word: בָּמָהTransliteration: bâmâhSaid: bam-maw'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 87 verses

What it means

an elevation.

Where it comes from

from an unused root (meaning to be high).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 92 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

high places 61×high place 17×howbeit the high places 3×still in the high places 2×whose high places 2×thine high places 1×nevertheless the high places 1×yet in the high places 1×save that the high places 1×still on the high places 1×also of the high places 1×journey to the high place 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: height, high place, wave.

Verses using בָּמָה

The first 40 of 87 verses, quoted in full.

Leviticus 26:30 · KJV

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 · KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 32:13 · KJV

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;

1 Samuel 9:12 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

2 Samuel 1:19 · KJV

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

2 Samuel 1:25 · KJV

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

2 Samuel 22:34 · KJV

He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

1 Kings 3:2 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

1 Kings 13:2 · KJV

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 · KJV

For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, 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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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

1 Kings 15:14 · KJV

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

1 Kings 22:43 · KJV

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 · KJV

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

2 Kings 14:4 · KJV

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 · KJV

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

2 Kings 15:35 · KJV

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 · KJV

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

2 Kings 17:9 · KJV

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.

2 Kings 17:11 · KJV

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2 Kings 17:29 · KJV

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

2 Kings 17:32 · KJV

So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

2 Kings 18:4 · KJV

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

2 Kings 18:22 · KJV

But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

2 Kings 21:3 · KJV

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2 Kings 23:5 · KJV

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn 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 · KJV

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

2 Kings 23:9 · KJV

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

Common questions

What does Strong's H1116 mean?

H1116 is the Hebrew word בָּמָה (bâmâh), meaning an elevation.

How is H1116 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it high places (61 times), high place (17 times), howbeit the high places (3 times), still in the high places (2 times), whose high places (2 times), among others.

How many times does H1116 appear in the Bible?

בָּמָה (bâmâh) is tagged in 87 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H1116 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root (meaning to be high).

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