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Bema   Listen
noun
Bema  n.  
1.
(Gr. Antiq.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
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.





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Words linked to "Bema" :   area, church building, choir, chancel, church, sanctuary


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