Look up: Bema

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   Bema
   a raised platform or podium from which a speaker might address a court or on which a competitor in a music contest might play.
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   Bema
   Be'ma noun [ Greek ... step, platform.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. Mitford. 2. (Architecture) (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.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/36
   
   
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   Bema
   The `Bema` (from the Greek: `bema`, `step`) means a raised platform. In antiquity it was probably made of stone, but in modern times it is usually a rectangular wooden platform approached by steps. The original use of the bema in Athens was as a tribunal from which orators addressed the citizens as well as the courts of law (see Pnyx). In Greek law courts the two parties to a dispute presented their arguments each from separate bemas. `Bema` wa...
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   Bema
   • (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. • (n.) Erroneously: A pulpit. • (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.
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   Bema
   (from the article `ceremonial object`) ...furnishings fixed to the walls, like the formerly mobile minbar (domed boxes in mosques). In Manichaeism (a dualistic religion founded by the ...
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   bema
   (Greek bma, `step`), raised platform; in antiquity it was probably made of stone, but in modern times it is usually a rectangular wooden platform ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/46