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Strong's H1116 בָּמָה (bamah)

Bamah means “elevation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1116 — gomorrha in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1116
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 93
Books 18

Strong's H1116 Quick Answer

Strong's H1116 בָּמָה (bamah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bamah (bam-maw') n-f. 1. an elevation [from an unused root (meaning to be high)] It has 93 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include high and bamah. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
bamah (bam-maw') n-f. 1. an elevation [from an unused root (meaning to be high)]
Usage
93 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
high and bamah

Meaning and Definition

bamah (bam-maw') n-f. 1. an elevation [from an unused root (meaning to be high)] KJV: height, high place, wave.

Original Word
בָּמָה
Transliteration
bamah
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1116. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

high place

Usage: 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?

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How Strong's H1116 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bamah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

high Leviticus 26:30 91× Bamah Ezekiel 20:29

How Strong's H1116 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 93 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1116 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1116 in the Old Testament

93 indexed usages in Old Testament.

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 21:28 KJV

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

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.

Usage Excerpts

First 93 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1116.

Leviticus 26:30 Old Testament, 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 21:28 Old Testament, KJV
For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
Numbers 22:41 Old Testament, 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.
Numbers 33:52 Old Testament, KJV
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Deuteronomy 32:13 Old Testament, 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;
Deuteronomy 33:29 Old Testament, KJV
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
1 Samuel 9:12 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
2 Samuel 1:19 Old Testament, KJV
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel 1:25 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
1 Kings 3:2 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
1 Kings 22:43 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 14:4 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings 15:35 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 17:9 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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.
2 Kings 23:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2 Kings 23:15 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Kings 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2 Kings 23:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 16:39 Old Testament, KJV
And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 21:29 Old Testament, KJV
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
2 Chronicles 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
2 Chronicles 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
2 Chronicles 14:3 Old Testament, KJV
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
2 Chronicles 15:17 Old Testament, KJV
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles 17:6 Old Testament, KJV
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
2 Chronicles 20:33 Old Testament, KJV
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 21:11 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
2 Chronicles 28:4 Old Testament, KJV
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chronicles 28:25 Old Testament, KJV
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 31:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 32:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles 33:17 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
2 Chronicles 33:19 Old Testament, KJV
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles 34:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Job 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Psalms 18:33 Old Testament, KJV
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
Psalms 78:58 Old Testament, KJV
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Isaiah 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Isaiah 16:12 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
Isaiah 36:7 Old Testament, KJV
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
Isaiah 58:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Jeremiah 7:31 Old Testament, KJV
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jeremiah 17:3 Old Testament, KJV
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jeremiah 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 32:35 Old Testament, KJV
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah 48:35 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
Ezekiel 6:3 Old Testament, KJV
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 6:6 Old Testament, KJV
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Ezekiel 16:16 Old Testament, KJV
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Ezekiel 20:29 Old Testament, KJV
Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Ezekiel 36:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
Ezekiel 43:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Hosea 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Amos 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Amos 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Micah 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Micah 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah 3:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Habakkuk 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1116, grouped by book.

Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 12 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 19 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 17 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Micah 3 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1116 FAQ

What does bamah (בָּמָה) mean?

Bamah (Strong's H1116) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "elevation". bamah (bam-maw') n-f. 1. an elevation [from an unused root (meaning to be high)]

How many times is bamah (בָּמָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 93 linked usages for Strong's H1116 across 18 books.

Where can I study bamah (בָּמָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1116 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate bamah (בָּמָה)?

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