different between bema vs beme

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (bêma, “a step”), from the root of ????? (baín?, “I go, step”). Doublet of bima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?m?/

Noun

bema (plural bemas or bemata)

1. A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
2. Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.

Quotations

• 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, page 46:

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

Anagrams

• BAME, Bame, Beam, Mabe, ambe, beam, mabe

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu -bhema.

Verb

bema

1. to smoke

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English beme, from Old English b?me, b?me, b?eme (“trumpet; tablet, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *baumij? (“wooden instrument”). Doublet of beam

Noun

beme (plural bemes)

1. (obsolete) Trumpet.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bemen, from Old English b?mian (“to blow a trumpet, trumpet forth”), from b?me (“trumpet”).

Verb

beme (third-person singular simple present bemes, present participle beming, simple past and past participle bemed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To sound a trumpet.

Derived terms

• beming

Anagrams

• Beem