bimah

noun

variants or bima
Definition of bimahnext
as in altar
a raised platform in a synagogue from which the Torah is read He stepped up to the bimah for the reading.

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Recent Examples of bimah The rabbis had asked several members who’d made trips there to talk about their experiences while standing on the bimah, before the Acheinu prayer was read. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 We were led by women instead of the all-male cast of rabbis that blanketed the other bimahs across town. — Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025 Half was hidden in a safe under the bimah of a synagogue so that even the Germans could not find it. — New York Times, 4 May 2022 On the bimah, Charlotte has shown her maturity — proving it even to herself. — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022 See All Example Sentences for bimah
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  1. altar
  2. pulpit
Noun
  • Automatic Seafood & Oysters is an altar to Gulf seafood from the accomplished chef Adam Evans and designer Suzanne Humphries.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In Labor of Light (2016), an assemblage of technologies comes together as a kind of altar to the history of video production.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of altar
Noun
  • An elderly woman in a proper ink-black dress and modest, sensible heels motioned us over and led us down the aisle, inviting us to sit in the pair of waiting chairs just opposite the pulpit.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
  • In most Quaker houses of worship, there is no clergy, pulpit or altar.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of pulpit

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