1) Altar area 2) Ancient greek rostrum 3) Area 4) Basilica area 5) Basilica section 6) Bimah 7) Chancel 8) Chancel of early church 9) Choir enclosure 10) Church platform 11) Early church area 12) Eastern Church chancel 13) Greek dais 14) Old Greek platform 15) Part of an Eastern church 16) Sanctuary
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1) Chancel
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The bema or bima is an elevated platform. In ancient Athens, it was used an orator`s podium. In synagogues, it is also known as a bimah and is for Torah reading during services. In an Orthodox Temple, a bema is the raised area around the altar, or the sanctuary. In antiquity it was made of stone, but in modern times it is usually a rectangular wo....
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[moth] Bema is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Dyar, in 1914, and is known from Panama and St. Thomas. ...
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raised part of an Eastern church containing the altar
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• (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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(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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(Greek bma, `step`), raised platform; in antiquity it was probably made of stone, but in modern times it is usually a rectangular wooden platform ...
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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 ...
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Bema is a cultivated variety of potato.
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In architecture a bema was 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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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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the enclosed space surrounding the altar; the sanctuary or chancel. · (in a Christian basilica) an open space between the end of the nave arcade and the apse. · bimah. · a platform for public speaking.
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