Definitions for bemas

bemas be·ma

Spelling: [bee-muh]
IPA: /ˈbi mə/

Bemas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in bemas (abems).

Definitions for bemas

noun

  1. Eastern Church. the enclosed space surrounding the altar; the sanctuary or chancel.
  2. (in a Christian basilica) an open space between the end of the nave arcade and the apse.
  3. bimah.
  4. a platform for public speaking.

Origin of bemas

1675-85; Greek bêma step, platform, equivalent to bē- (verbid stem of baínein to step, go; see come) + -ma (noun suffix denoting result of action)

Examples for bemas

The bema, on which he sat to administer justice, was probably the golden throne of Archelaus.

His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema.

The two smaller compartments and apses at the sides of the bema were sacristies, the diaconicon and prothesis.

In the chord of the bema stood the holy table with its ciborium or canopy of gold.

Twice I went to the bema and spoke to those priests and that mangy rabble.

To accommodate the people and to enjoy the repose of midday, Roman governors, Suetonius tells us, mounted the bema at sunrise.

The bema and the two lateral chapels have cross-groined vaults.

Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema.

In Greece the bema was the general name of any raised platform.

Another Kandian peculiarity was a kind of marriage called bema, in which the husband lived at his wifes house.

Word Value for bemas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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