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Webster 1913 Edition
Bema
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Be′ma
,Noun.
[Gr.
[GREEK]
step, platform.] 1.
(Gr. Antiq.)
A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
Mitford.
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.
(b)
Erroneously: A pulpit.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bema
BE'MA
,Noun.
1.
In ancient Greece, a state or kind of pulpit, on which speakers stood when addressing an assembly.Definition 2024
bema
bema
English
Noun
bema (plural bemas or bemata)
- A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
- Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.
Quotations
- 1707, Royal Society, Miscellanea curiosa: Being a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age. Together with several discourses read before the Royal society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge, Volume 3, page 46:
- I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to the Bema or place where the Altar formerly stood.