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Thank you for bumping this thread! See post#43 link to WND article from 2009. I did not read about Luke 10:18 at WND but it is great to have an article link.

We know BRQ ‘baraq’ is lightning in Hebrew. The word BMHe ‘bamah’ is high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform) in Hebrew. And ShTN is Satan.

It is a fascinating study to see how these words were used in the O.T. At this link it helps to read the “dictionary” entry and especially the notes of the genius bible scholar “Gesenius” to understand context, depth and how the word usage developed over time. I have not found it used in the N.T. so I believe that Jesus was also referring back to the O.T. as he often did, speaking in the language of the scriptures which he knew, Masoretic Hebrew. Strong’s Hebrew word #H1116 link:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H1116&ot=NASB&t=KJV#lexSearch

Here is an example of ‘bamah’ (see high places) where ‘bamah’ was increasingly associated with idol worship.

2 Kings 18:4 (KJV)

“He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.”

Click Tools to see it in Masoretic Hebrew and Koine Greek in the Septuagint

https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/2ki/18/4/s_331004

Lucifer speaking here where ‘bamah’ is heights.
Isaiah 14:14 (KJV)

“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”

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