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title: בָּמוֹת — Bamoth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּמוֹת (1120), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Bamoth. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּמוֹת

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«בָּמוֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bamoth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1120 · **BDB:** בָּמוֹת

### Glosses

Bamoth (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּמוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1120/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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.

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