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# בָּמוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1120

**Bamoth** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bamoth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1120/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּמוֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1120/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (high place or great high place) place in Moab Nu 21:19, 20 = בָּמוֹת בַּעַל Nu 22:41; Jos 13:17 possibly on Mt. ‘Aṭṭarûs cf. Di.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bamoth (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.19/#tree)

וּמִמַּתָּנָ֖ה נַחֲלִיאֵ֑ל וּמִנַּחֲלִיאֵ֖ל בָּמֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and from Mattanah Nahaliel and from Nahaliel Bamoth

*JPS 1917:* and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

[Numbers 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.20/#tree)

וּמִבָּמ֗וֹת הַגַּיְא֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ בִּשְׂדֵ֣ה מוֹאָ֔ב רֹ֖אשׁ הַפִּסְגָּ֑ה וְנִשְׁקָ֖פָה עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* and from Bamoth the valley which \[is\].in the.region of.Moab the.top of.(the) Pisgah and it.looked.down over the.face of.(the) Jeshimon

*JPS 1917:* and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1120.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1120/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).