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Strong's #1116 - בּוּם

Transliteration

bâmâh

Phonetics

baw-maw'

Origin

from an unused root (meaning to be high)

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TWOT

253

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)
1. high place, mountain
2. high places, battlefields
3. high places (as places of worship)
4. funeral mound?

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 18 ‑ ἀγαθός (ag‑ath‑os'); 1015 ‑ βουνός (boo‑nos'); 1041 ‑ βωμός (bo'‑mos); 1497 ‑ εἴδωλον (i'‑do‑lon); 2048 ‑ ἔρημος (er'‑ay‑mos); 2379 ‑ θυσιαστήριον (thoo‑see‑as‑tay'‑ree‑on); 2479 ‑ ἰσχύς (is‑khoos'); 5308 ‑ ὑψηλός (hoop‑say‑los'); 5311 ‑ ὕψος (hoop'‑sos); 5101 ‑ τίς (tis); 144 ‑ αἴσθησις (ah'ee‑sthay‑sis);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (100)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 2

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 27

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 5

Ezekiel 5

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

BSB (100)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 2

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 27

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 6

Ezekiel 6

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

CSB (86)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 2

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 25

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 6

Ezekiel 6

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

ESV (101)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 3

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 26

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 6

Ezekiel 6

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

KJV (102)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 2

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 27

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 6

Ezekiel 6

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

LEB (102)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 2

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 27

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 6

Ezekiel 6

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

LSB (195)

Leviticus 2

Numbers 4

Deuteronomy 4

1 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 6

1 Kings 28

2 Kings 51

1 Chronicles 4

2 Chronicles 34

Job 1

Psalms 4

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 12

Ezekiel 9

Hosea 2

Amos 4

Micah 6

Habakkuk 2

N95 (191)

Leviticus 2

Numbers 4

Deuteronomy 4

1 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 6

1 Kings 28

2 Kings 51

1 Chronicles 4

2 Chronicles 34

Job 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 12

Ezekiel 9

Hosea 2

Amos 4

Micah 6

Habakkuk 2

NAS (198)

Leviticus 2

Numbers 4

Deuteronomy 4

1 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 6

1 Kings 28

2 Kings 51

1 Chronicles 4

2 Chronicles 34

Job 1

Psalms 4

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 12

Ezekiel 9

Hosea 2

Amos 4

Micah 6

Habakkuk 2

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (102)

Leviticus 1

Numbers 2

Deuteronomy 2

1 Samuel 7

2 Samuel 3

1 Kings 14

2 Kings 27

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 17

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 5

Jeremiah 6

Ezekiel 6

Hosea 1

Amos 2

Micah 3

Habakkuk 1

ASV (100)

a high place 1

above the heights 1

all their high places 1

also of the high places 1

and madest for thee high places 1

and the high place 2

and the high places 4

and what are the high places 1

as the high places 2

but the high places 2

for the high places 1

from the high place 3

from the high places 1

high place 1

high places 4

himself upon the high place 1

his high places 1

howbeit the high places 6

in all the high places 1

in the high place 4

in the high places 10

into the high places 1

is not that he, whose high places 2

me unto the high place 1

me upon my high places 2

of high places 1

of the high places 10

on the high places 1

still in the high places 1

the high place 1

the high places 12

them high places 2

to the high place 4

to the high places 1

unto them, what meaneth the high place 1

upon my high places 1

upon the waves 1

upon the high places 3

upon their high places 1

upon thy high places 2

with their high places 1

your high places 2

BSB (100)

a high place 1

and high places 1

and the high places 1

at its high places 1

at the high place 2

at the high places 1

at their deaths 1

for the high places 3

from the high place 3

heights 2

high place 1

high places 7

his high places 1

is the high place 1

is this high place 1

of the high places 6

of your high places 1

on the high place 1

on the high places 11

ridge 2

the heights 6

the high place 3

the high places 24

the tops 1

the waves 1

their high places 2

there 3

to the high place 5

whose high places 2

with their high places 1

your heights 2

your high places 2

CSB (86)

heights 1

place 17

places 63

the heights 2

the high place 1

their high places 1

your high places 1

ESV (101)

backs 1

height 2

heights 6

high 3

high place 18

high places 67

no 1

places 1

shrines 1

waves 1

KJV (102)

heights 1

place 18

places 82

waves 1

LEB (102)

a high place 1

and high places 1

and the high places 1

are the high places of 1

as a high place in 1

as high places of 1

at a high place 1

at the high place 3

at the high places 2

bamah 1

but the high places 2

for the high places 1

from the high place 1

high place 1

high places 8

him to anger with their high places 1

him went to the high place 1

his high places 1

my high places 3

on the high places 9

on their high places 1

shrines 1

the heights of 2

the high place 8

the high place of 1

the high places 28

the high places himself 1

the high places of 8

the lords of the high places of 1

the waves of 1

their backs 1

their high places 1

to the high place 2

to the high places 1

your high places 4

LSB (195)

heights 3

high 95

place 19

places 77

waves 1

N95 (191)

heights 3

high 93

place 19

places 75

waves 1

NAS (198)

heights 3

high 97

place 20

places 77

waves 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (102)

a high place 1

above the heights 1

all their high places 1

also of the high places 1

and made for yourselves high places 1

and the high place 2

and the high places 2

and what are the high places 1

and your high places 1

as the high places 1

but the high places 2

for the high places 1

from the high place 3

from the high places 1

high place 1

high places 4

himself on the high place 1

his high places 1

however the high places 6

in all the high places 1

in high places 1

in the high place 4

in the high places 10

in their high places 1

into the high places 1

like the high places 1

me on my high places 2

me to the high place 1

of high places 1

of the high places 10

on the high places 4

on the waves 1

on their high places 1

on your high places 2

still in the high places 1

the high place 1

the high places 14

them high places 2

to the high place 4

to the high places 1

with their high places 1

your high places 2

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1036) m b (במ BM) AC: ? CO: High AB: ?: Anything that is tall or high.

G) m e b (בהמ BHM) AC: ? CO: Beast AB: ?: A tall creature.

N^f1) e m e b (בהמה BHMH) - Beast: KJV (190): beast, cattle - Strongs: H929 (בְּהֵמָה), H930 (בְּהֵמוֹת)

H) e m b (במה BMH) AC: ? CO: High AB: ?

N^f ) e m b (במה BMH) - High Place: KJV (102): high place, heights, wave - Strongs: H1116 (בּוּם)

L) m b i (יבמ YBM) AC: Marry CO: Brother-in-law AB: ?: When a husband dies his brother takes his place as his sister-in-laws husband. Any children born to him will be of his brothers line in order to continue, lift up, his family.

V) m b i (יבמ YBM) - Marry: The marrying of ones sister-in-law as the next of kin. KJV (3): (vf: Piel) marry - Strongs: H2992 (יָבַם)

N^m) m b i (יבמ YBM) - Brother-in-law: KJV (2): husbands brother - Strongs: H2993 (יָבָם)

N^f2) t m b i (יבמת YBMT) - Sister-in-law: KJV (5): brothers wife, sister in law - Strongs: H2994 (יְבָמָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

בָּמָה₁₀₄ noun feminine high place (√ apparently בום on account of firm ָ֯; compare Assyrian bâmâtê Zim^{BP 48, Moab.} במת MI^3,27) — Jeremiah 48:35 18t.; הַבָּמָ֫תָה 1 Samuel 9:13; plural בָּמוֺת Numbers 21:19 62t.; construct בָּֽמֳתֵי Job 9:8; Isaiah 14:14; Amos 4:13; בָּֽמֳו֯תֵי Deuteronomy 32:13; Isaiah 58:14; Micah 1:3 (Ew^{§ 211 d} Ges^{§ 87}, 5 archaic feminine construct with retracted accent before monosyl. in poetry, bâm©-thê not b©m); suffix בָּמֹתַי 2 Samuel 22:34 3t.; בָּמוֺתַי Psalm 18:34 10t.; —

1 high place, mountain: בָּמוֺת יָעַר forest mountains Micah 3:12 = Jeremiah 26:18; במות עולם ancient mountains Ezekiel 36:2; במות ארנן Numbers 21:28 (E poetry)

2 high places, battle-fields, the chief places of the land giving possession, victory, dominion: על במותיך on thy high places (Gilboa, the battle-field) 2 Samuel 1:19,25 (in 2 Samuel 1:19 ᵐ5 has a doublet מֵתֶיךָ thy dead, see We Dr).

a. of Israel: רכב על במתיארץ ride upon the high places of the land Deuteronomy 32:13 & Isaiah 58:14 compare Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 18:34 = 2 Samuel 22:34; Habakkuk 3:19.

b. of God: דרך על במתי ארץ tread upon the high places of the earth Amos 4:13 compare Micah 1:3; במתי ים Job 9:8; עלה על במתי עב (aspiration of the king of Babylon) Isaiah 14:14.

3 high places, as places of worship, at first on hills and mountains, later on artificial mounds or platforms, under green trees, and in cities; still later for the chapels erected thereon, and once apparently for a portable sanctuary (decked with diverse colours) Ezekiel 16:16. The ancient worship of Israel was conducted on these high places. In the times of Samuel and David they ascended to them, descended from them, and offered sacrifices on them, 1 Samuel 9:12-25; 1 Samuel 10:5,13 (הבמה for הביתה We Dr). The custom continued in the reign of Song of Solomon , but Gibeon was הבמההגדולה 1 Kings 3:2-4compare 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:3,13. High places of Baal were also used Numbers 22:41 (E) Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35; of Moab Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:12; Jeremiah 48:35 (compare MI²⁷); these must be demolished Numbers 33:52 (J). Solomon built במות (platforms or chapels) to Chemosh and Milkom on the Mt. of Evil Counsel opposite Jerusalem 1 Kings 11:7: Jeroboam made temples on the ancient high places of Dan and Bethel 1 Kings 12:31,32; 2 Chronicles 11:15; they are called במות און Hosea 10:8, במות ישׂחק Amos 7:9: the kings of Israel built במות and בתי הבמות in all their cities 2 Kings 17:9, and the people worshipped there 2 Kings 17:11; these were also used by the mixed population after the exile of Israel 2 Kings 17:29,32 (twice in verse): these various idolatrous high places were first destroyed by Josiah 1 Kings 13:2; 1 Kings 13:32; 1 Kings 13:38; 2 Kings 23:5-20 2 Chronicles 34:3. The worship of Yahweh on high places continued in Judah until the exile 1 Kings 22:44; 2 Kings 15:35; the sanctity code predicts that Yahweh will destroy them Leviticus 26:30; they were regarded as the reason for the rejection of Shiloh Psalm 78:58. The compiler of Kings, writing from the point of view of the Deuteronomic code, complains רַק הַבָּמוֺתלֹא סָרוּ 2 Kings 12:4; 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:4,35 compare 2 Chronicles 15:17; 20:33, and praises the few pious kings who destroyed them.

a. Rehoboam built במות with מצבות & אשׁרים on every high hill and under every green tree 1 Kings 14:23.

b. Asa did not remove the high places 1 Kings 15:14 ( 2 Chronicles 14:2; 2 Chronicles 14:4 is incorrect unless במות בעל).

c. Jehoshaphat in his reform on the basis of the covenant code did not remove them 1 Kings 22:44 (עוֺד הֵסִיר אֶתהַֿבָּמוֺת 2 Chronicles 17:16 is doubtless incorrect, possibly read מצבות); Jehoram, his Song of Solomon , made high places in the cities of Judah 2 Chronicles 21:11 (ᵐ5ᵑ9; not mountains HCT); and Ahaz sacrificed on high places on the hills and under every green tree and in every city of Judah 2 Kings 16:4; 2 Chronicles 28:4,25; compare Micah 1:5 (read חטאת? so ᵐ5ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Che and others; yet compare JBL^1890,73f.)

d. Hezekiah removed them 2 Kings 18:4,22; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 32:12; Isaiah 36:7; but Manasseh rebuilt them 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 33:3,19, and the people continued to sacrifice thereon to Yahweh 2 Chronicles 33:17.

e. Josiah, in his reform, based on the Deuteronomic code, defiled them and brake them down from Geba to Beersheba 2 Kings 23:5,8,9; but subsequently there were במותהתפת in the valley of Ben Hinnom Jeremiah 7:31, and במות throughout Judah Jeremiah 17:3 compare Ezekiel 6:3,6; Ezekiel 20:29 (questioned by Ew & Co).

4 funereal mound (?) Ezekiel 43:7 (Thes, but in their high places AV RV; in their death ᵑ7 Theod Ew Hi RVm), Isaiah 53:9 (Lowth Ew Bö Rodwell Orelli; but in his death AV Revelation , or martyr death De Che Br).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

בּוּם an unused root, which appears to have had the notion of height, whence בָּמָה a high place, which see. The other Phœnicio-Shemitic languages have not this root (see however Syr. ܒܺܝܡܳܐ 1 Samuel 10:23, Pesh.), but its traces are manifest in the Indo-Germanic stock of languages, as the Pers. بام the top of any thing, roof, βωμός, altar, mound, and βοῦνος, hill, pomus, used of taller trees; in the Germanic languages Bom, Boom, Baum, whence ftch bäumen.

[Derivative בָּמָה.]

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List of Word Forms

בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם בַּבָּמ֑וֹת בַּבָּמ֔וֹת בַּבָּמ֖וֹת בַּבָּמָ֖ה בַּבָּמָֽה׃ בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃ בַּבָּמוֹת֙ בָּ֝מֹתַ֗י בָּ֣מֳתֵי בָּ֥מֳתֵי בָּמ֑וֹת בָּמ֔וֹת בָּמ֣וֹת בָּמ֥וֹת בָּמ֨וֹת בָּמָ֗ה בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָ בָּמֹתָ֖יו בָּמֹתָ֖ם בָּמֹתָ֣יו בָּמֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ בָּמוֹת֙ בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹ בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ בָּמוֹתַ֖י בָּמוֹתָֽם׃ בָמ֔וֹת בָמ֖וֹת בָמָ֔ה בָמֽוֹת׃ בָּ֣מֳתֵי בָּ֥מֳתֵי בבמה בבמה׃ בבמות בבמות׃ בבמותם במה במות במות׃ במותי במותיך במותיכם׃ במותימו במותם׃ במתי במתיו במתיך במתיכם במתם הַ֠בָּמוֹת הַבָּמ֔וֹת הַבָּמ֖וֹת הַבָּמ֗וֹת הַבָּמ֜וֹת הַבָּמ֞וֹת הַבָּמ֤וֹת הַבָּמ֥וֹת הַבָּמָ֑ה הַבָּמָ֔ה הַבָּמָ֖ה הַבָּמָ֛ה הַבָּמָ֜תָה הַבָּמָ֣ה הַבָּמָֽה׃ הַבָּמָה֙ הַבָּמֽוֹת׃ הַבָּמוֹת֙ הבמה הבמה׃ הבמות הבמות׃ הבמתה וְהַ֨בָּמ֔וֹת וְהַבָּמ֑וֹת וְהַבָּמ֖וֹת וּבָמ֣וֹת ובמות והבמות לְבָמ֥וֹת לַבָּמ֖וֹת לַבָּמָ֖ה לַבָּמָ֤ה לבמה לבמות מֵֽהַבָּמָ֔ה מֵהַבָּמָ֖ה מהבמה bā·māh ḇā·māh bā·mō·ṯām bā·mō·ṯāw bā·mō·ṯay bā·mo·ṯê bā·mō·ṯe·ḵā bā·mō·ṯê·ḵem bā·mō·w·ṯām bā·mō·w·ṯay bā·mō·w·ṯe·ḵā bā·mō·w·ṯê·ḵem bā·mō·w·ṯê·mōw bā·mō·wṯ ḇā·mō·wṯ bab·bā·māh bab·bā·mō·wṯ babbaMah babbāmāh babbaMot babbāmōwṯ baMah bāmāh ḇāmāh baMot bamoTai bamoTam bāmōṯām bamoTav bāmōṯāw bāmōṯay bāmoṯê bamoTeicha bamoteiChem bamoTeimov bāmōṯeḵā bāmōṯêḵem bāmōwṯ ḇāmōwṯ bāmōwṯām bāmōwṯay bāmōwṯeḵā bāmōwṯêḵem bāmōwṯêmōw bə·ḇā·mō·w·ṯām bəḇāmōwṯām bevamoTam Bomotei hab·bā·mā·ṯāh hab·bā·māh hab·bā·mō·wṯ habbaMah habbāmāh habbaMatah habbāmāṯāh habbaMot habbāmōwṯ lab·bā·māh lab·bā·mō·wṯ labbaMah labbāmāh labbaMot labbāmōwṯ lə·ḇā·mō·wṯ ləḇāmōwṯ levaMot mê·hab·bā·māh mehabbaMah mêhabbāmāh ū·ḇā·mō·wṯ ūḇāmōwṯ uvaMot vaMah vaMot vehabbaMot wə·hab·bā·mō·wṯ wəhabbāmōwṯ