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Beka vs Bema - What's the difference?

beka | bema |

As nouns the difference between beka and bema

is that beka is an ancient biblical unit of weight, half a shekel while bema is a platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.

beka

English

Alternative forms

* bekah

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel.
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    bema

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
  • 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.

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