FromAncient Greekβῆμα(bêma,“a step”).Doublet ofbima.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːmə/
• Rhymes:-iːmə

bema (pluralbemasorbemata)

1. Aplatform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
2. Raised area ofworship in asynagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls ofTorah.

• 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, page46:

  I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to theBema or place where the Altar formerly stood.

• Bame,BAME,ameb-,ambe,Beam,Mabe,BEAM,mabe,beam,Emba

FromZulu-bhema.

bema

1. tosmoke

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