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Synagogue platform
Answer for the clue "Synagogue platform ", 4 letters:
bema
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Word definitions for bema in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing [syn: chancel , sanctuary ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bema is a genus of snout moths . It was described by Dyar, in 1914, and is known from Panama and St. Thomas .
Usage examples of bema.
The enclosure of the bema, with its columns and entablatures, was of silver gilt, and set with gems and pearls.
At the opposite end of the nave a door could be glimpsed behind the bema that contained the shrine to the four greater gods.
The main room of the temple has high beams and a fluted ceiling, pews neatly set like teeth and a bema covered with a rectangle of blue velvet.
He lifted the name of the heroine, Bema, from the label of a can of condensed milk.
Hebrew Studies at the university was at the bema, the altar, leading the prayers.
One of the three professors who taught Hebrew Studies at the university was at the bema, leading the prayers.
In the distance was the ancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and close by, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen.