The meaning of “בָּמָה”
Understanding bâmâh reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
height, high place, wave. - an elevation 1) high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform) 1a) hi...
בָּמָה
height, high place, wave. - an elevation 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?
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.” Word: בָּמָה (bâmâh) | |
| 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.” Word: בָּמָה (bâmâh) | |
| 2 Kings 18:4 | “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.” Word: בָּמָה (bâmâh) | |
| Job 9:8 | “Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.” Word: בָּמָה (bâmâh) | |
| Jeremiah 26:18 | “Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.” Word: בָּמָה (bâmâh) |
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