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.

plural of bema

(transitive) To furnish or fill with men; man.

(transitive) To bewilder.

(transitive, obsolete) To mask; cover or conceal with a mask; conceal.

(transitive, obsolete) To make mad.

(obsolete) To master throughly; dominate.

simple past tense and past participle of bemangle

(transitive) To mangle; to tear asunder.

(transitive, rare or obsolete) To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself. / (transitive) To mark or cover with marks; mark up.