1. A platform in the early Church represented by the modern pulpit, and railed off with a screen; originally the judge's seat in a basilica, and afterwards the site of the altar.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• vema,
• gema,
• bwma,
• bsma,
• bdma,
• brma,
• b4ma,
• b3ma,
• beja,
• bemz,
• bemw,
• bemq,
• vbema,
• bvema,
• nbema,
• bnema,
• hbema,
• bhema,
• gbema,
• bgema

• behan,
• Behn,
• beano,
• beamy,
• beany,
• Been,
• beane,
• bein,
• Beem,
• behm,
• bean,
• beta,
• beno,
• beahm,
• Benway,
• beanie,
• beam,
• ben,
• Benn.

The adjective form of the word "bema" is "bemal" or "bematic".

The plural of the "bema" can be the "bemas".

The singular of the "bema" can be the "bema".