bimah

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 Then, Fixler took to the bimah himself. The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025 The flags of the U.S. and Israel will both be displayed on the bimah, or raised platform, at the front of the sanctuary. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023 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 The discovery this week follows the 2019 unearthing of the Tuscan baroque-style bimah, the synagogue’s central prayer platform, in the same dig by a team of international scholars headed by Jon Seligman, director of the antiquities authority’s Excavations, Surveys and Research Department. Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
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Noun
  • All eyes might be on the pending wedding of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and superstar singer Taylor Swift, but a handful of other NFL players have already beat Kelce to the altar this year — two just this month.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
  • During this time, the main square is decorated with altars, skeletons, and marigolds.
    Zanny Merullo, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • Politicians routinely invoke faith on the campaign trail, speak from pulpits and frame policy debates in moral terms.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • The church’s parklike campus took up an entire block on Fifth Avenue, and its high pulpit was occupied by Harry Emerson Fosdick, a bespectacled liberal Baptist minister.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026

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“Bimah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bimah. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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