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bema
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A bema is an elevated platform used as an orator's podium. The term can refer to the raised area in a sanctuary. In Jewish synagogues, where it is used for Torah reading during services, the term used is bima or bimah.
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- architectural structure
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- Vertical Panorama of Interior of Choral Synagogue - Kharkiv (Kharkov) - Ukraine (42204198110) (cropped).jpg
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- Bimot
- partially coincident with
- bimah
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- bimah
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A bema is an elevated platform used as an orator's podium. The term can refer to the raised area in a sanctuary. In Jewish synagogues, where it is used for Torah reading during services, the term used is bima or bimah.
==Ancient Greece== thumb|right|The remains of the bema, or speaker's platform, at the Pnyx in Athens
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