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Bamah
BAMAH (ba'ma, Heb. bāmâh, high place). Ezekiel (20:29) plays on the two syllables ba (go) and mah (what), with evident contempt for the high place to which the word refers.
Bibliography
C. C. McCown, “Hebrew High Places and Cult Remains”; JBL LXIX (1950), 205-219; W. F. Albright, “The High Place in Ancient Israel,” Supplement to VT IV (1957), 242-258.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
ba’-ma, ba’-ma (bamah, "high place"): The word appears in