Midvash

בָּמָהbâmâh

high place

Pronunciation: bam-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1116

Meanings

1. high place, mountain (Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 26:18; Ezekiel 36:2)

2. high places, battle-fields (2 Samuel 1:19; 2 Samuel 1:25)

a. of Israel, ride upon the high places of the land (Deuteronomy 32:13; Isaiah 58:14; Deuteronomy 33:29)

b. of God, tread upon the high places of the earth (Amos 4:13; Micah 1:3; Job 9:8)

3. high places (Ezekiel 16:16; 1 Samuel 9:12-25; 1 Samuel 10:5)

c. mountains (1 Kings 22:44; 2 Chronicles 17:16; 2 Chronicles 21:11)

4. funeral mound (?) (Ezekiel 43:7; Isaiah 53:9)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 102 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
  • Numbers 21:28 A fire flamed forth from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It burned the city of Ar in Moab; it destroyed the rulers of the Arnon heights.
  • Numbers 33:52 you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.
  • Deuteronomy 32:13 He let them ride over the highlands and feast on the crops of the fields. He nourished them with honey from the rock and olive oil from the stony ground.
  • Deuteronomy 33:29 How blessed you are, O Israel! Who else is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is your protecting shield and your triumphant sword! Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will stomp on their backs!”
  • 1 Samuel 9:12 “Yes,” they replied. “Stay right on this road. He is at the town gates. He has just arrived to take part in a public sacrifice up at the place of worship.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).