Bema

1. n. Erroneously: A pulpit.
2. n. A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
3. n. That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.