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bimah

noun

variants or bima

Definition of bimah

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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On their wedding day, their paramotors were with them at the altar.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Bloys may well have to sacrifice some of his own team on the altar of fiscal responsibility, or could decide that there are execs at the current Paramount who might be better suited to push his supersize division forward.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

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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

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