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BAMAH a height, a name used simply to denote a high place where the Jews worshipped idols (Ezekiel 20:29). The plural is translated “high places” in Numbers 22:41 and Ezekiel 36:2.

BAMOTH heights, the forty-seventh station of the Israelites (Numbers 21:19,20) in the territory of the Moabites.

BAMOTH-BAAL heights of Baal, a place on the river Arnon, or in the plains through which it flows, east of Jordan (Joshua 13:17; comp. Numbers 21:28). It has been supposed to be the same place as Bamoth.