A BARE HEIGHT — a windswept, treeless ridge or scarp, the kind of open high ground where nothing grows and nothing hides. ⭐ Numbers 23:3 is the odd one out in the word’s whole biblical career: searched consonantally across the archived text it stands in nine verses, and the other eight are all in Isaiah and Jeremiah, always in the plural. This is the only singular, and the only occurrence outside those two prophets. ⚠ Jeremiah 7:29 puts both of Balaam’s opening moves in one line — LIFT UP a lament on the BARE HEIGHTS — using the same verb that takes up an oracle at Numbers 23:7 and the same noun for the place he walks off to. The versions are genuinely unsure: the ASV and NIV read a bare or barren height, the RV60 «un monte descubierto», but the KJV prints ‘an high place’ (which confuses it with a bamah, a sanctuary), Geneva and the RV 1909 take it to mean he went ALONE, and the Douay drops the word altogether. → first discussed at Num 23:3