Bamah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Ezekiel 20:29 Numbers 22:41 Ezekiel 36:2

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Ezekiel 20:29; "What is the high place whereunto ye hie habaim , alliteration to Bamah? And the name thereof is called. Bamah (i.e. "high place", akin to the Greek pagan bomos ) unto this day." The very name implies the place is not sanctioned by ME; (God); it implies its own paganness: My place is called mizbeach , "altar." Your sacrifices even to ME on a "high place" instead of My "altar" in the temple, were therefore a "provocation," Ezekiel 20:28 ( Deuteronomy 12:1-5). Ewald makes the clause in Ezekiel a quotation from an older prophet.

Holman Bible Dictionary

High Place Ezekiel 20:29

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

We meet with this name but once, namely in Ezekiel 20:29. It means an high place. Bamoth is the plural of it, and we meet with this several times, Numbers 21:19-20. Bamoth Baal, a city beyond Jordan. ( Joshua 13:17)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BAMAH (only Ezekiel 20:29 ) is the ordinary word for ‘high place,’ but is here retained in its Hebrew form as the word ‘manna’ in the parallel case Exodus 16:15 , on account of the word-play: ‘What ( mah ) is the ba-mah to which ye go ( bâ )?’ See, further, High Place.

A. R. S. Kennedy.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

The Hebrew word bamah, signifying 'high place,' is once left untranslated, Ezekiel 20:29 , where Israel offered sacrifices to idols. It is frequently translated HIGH PLACES, q.v.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Bamah ( bâ'mah), high place. The name applied to idolatrous places of worship. Ezekiel 20:29.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ba'mah. (high place). Found only in Ezekiel 20:29, applied to places of idolatrous worship.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ba´ma , bā´ma ( בּמה , bāmāh , "high place"): The word appears in Ezekiel 20:29 where reference is made to former "high-place worship," the prophet speaking with contempt of such manner of worship. Ewald suggests a play of words, בּא , bā' , "come" and מה , māh , "what," "what ( māh ) is the high place ( bā - māh ) whereunto ye come ( bā' )?" It is possible that reference is made to a prominent high place like the one at Gibeon (compare 1 Kings 3:4; 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Ch 13) for which the name "Bamah" was retained after the reform mentioned by the prophet.