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H1116בָּמָהba.mah

high placePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 2
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 7
  10. 3
  11. 14
  12. 27
  13. 2
  14. 17
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. 2
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 5
  24. 6
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 6
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 1
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 2
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 3
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. 1
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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102 occurrences in 92 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:15

    and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, and for the calves which he had made.

    לַבָּמ֖וֹת (בָּמ֖וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  2. 2 Chronicles 14:2

    for he took away the strange altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim;

    וְהַבָּמ֑וֹת (בָּמ֑וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  3. 2 Chronicles 14:4

    Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

    הַבָּמ֖וֹת (בָּמ֖וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  4. 2 Chronicles 15:17

    But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole all his days.

    וְהַ֨בָּמ֔וֹת (בָּמ֔וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  5. 2 Chronicles 17:6

    And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD; and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

    הַבָּמ֥וֹת (בָּמ֥וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  6. 2 Chronicles 20:33

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

    הַבָּמ֖וֹת (בָּמ֖וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  7. 2 Chronicles 21:11

    Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, and drew Judah away.

    בָמ֖וֹת va.Mot “high places”

  8. 2 Chronicles 28:4

    And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

    בַּבָּמ֖וֹת (בָּמ֖וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  9. 2 Chronicles 28:25

    And in every city of Judah he made high places to offer unto other gods, and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

    בָמ֔וֹת va.Mot “high places”

  10. 2 Chronicles 31:1

    Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Ma

    הַ֠בָּמוֹת (בָּמוֹת) ba.mot “high places”

  11. 2 Chronicles 32:12

    Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye offer?

    בָּמֹתָ֖יו (בָּמֹתָ֖י) ba.mo.Ta “high places”

  12. 2 Chronicles 33:3

    For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

    הַבָּמ֔וֹת (בָּמ֔וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  13. 2 Chronicles 33:17

    Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, but only unto the LORD their God.

    בַּבָּמ֑וֹת (בָּמ֑וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  14. 2 Chronicles 33:19

    His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his transgression, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself; behold, they are written in the history of the

    בָּמוֹת֙ ba.mOt “high places”

  15. 2 Chronicles 34:3

    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten im

    הַבָּמוֹת֙ (בָּמוֹת֙) ba.mOt “high places”

  16. Job 9:8

    Who alone stretcheth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

    בָּ֥מֳתֵי Bo.mo.tei “[the] high places of”

  17. Psalms 18:34

    Who maketh my feet like hinds', and setteth me upon my high places;

    בָּ֝מֹתַ֗י (בָּ֝מֹתַ֗) ba.mo.Ta “high places”

  18. Psalms 78:58

    For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

    בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם (בָמוֹתָ֑) va.mo.Ta “high places”

  19. Isaiah 14:14

    I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'

    בָּ֣מֳתֵי Bo.mo.tei “[the] high places of”

  20. Isaiah 15:2

    He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; upon Nebo, and upon Medeba, Moab howleth; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is shaven.

    הַבָּמ֖וֹת (בָּמ֖וֹת) ba.Mot “high places”

  21. Isaiah 16:12

    And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail

    הַבָּמָ֑ה (בָּמָ֑ה) ba.Mah “high place”

  22. Isaiah 36:7

    But if thou 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 to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar?

    בָּמֹתָ֣יו (בָּמֹתָ֣י) ba.mo.Ta “high places”

  23. Isaiah 58:14

    Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD, and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

    בָּ֣מֳתֵי ba.mo.tei “[the] high places of”

  24. Jeremiah 7:31

    And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into My mind.

    בָּמ֣וֹת ba.Mot “[the] high places of”

  25. Jeremiah 17:3

    O thou that sittest upon the mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

    בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָ (בָּמֹתֶ֕י) ba.mo.Tei. “high places”