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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.