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bema
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bema \Be"ma\, n. [Gr. ? step, platform.]
(Gr. Antiq.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
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(Arch.)
That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.
Erroneously: A pulpit.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. 2 Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The bema — or bima — is an elevated platform. In ancient Athens, it was used as an orator's podium. In synagogues, it is also known as a bimah and is for Torah reading during services. In an Orthodox synagogue, a bema is the raised area around the aron kodesh, or the sanctuary. In antiquity it was made of stone, but in modern times it is usually a rectangular wooden platform approached by steps.
A bema is a ceremonial platform set up in an assembly.
Bema may also refer to:
- Bema (moth), a genus of moth
- Bema, Lombardy, a town in the province of Sondrio, Italy
- Bema Gold, a corporation in Canada
- The British Environment and Media Awards
- Oromë or Béma, a Valar in Tolkien's mythology
- Bema, an Ancient Greek unit of measurement
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.