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H1116 בָּמָה (bâmâh) bam-maw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation

KJV Usage: height, high place, wave

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בָּמָה (ba.mah) — 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?

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f

People

back = rear surface of the body

DEU 33:29

Landforms

heights, hills literally: the back (of an area); hence: = the highest situated parts of a certain location, often representing the entire location

NUM 21:28 · DEU 32:13 · 2SA 1:19 · 2SA 1:25 · 2SA 22:34 · JOB 9:8 · PSA 18:34 · ISA 14:14 · ISA 58:14 · JER 17:3 · JER 26:18 · EZK 36:2 · EZK 43:7 · AMO 4:13 · MIC 1:3 · MIC 3:12 · HAB 3:19

1 DEU 32:13 · ISA 58:14 · MIC 1:3 MT-K במותי | MT-Q בָּמֳתֵי

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בָּמָה 104 n.f. high place high place, mountain

high places, battle-fields

high places, as places of worship

funereal mound (?)

base

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