βῆμα
bēma · G968 · Greek · 12 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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judgement seat, judgment place
A raised platform mounted by steps and usually furnished with a seat; used by officials to address an assembly, often on judicial matters, with a focus on judgement
ExamplesMatthew 27:19 And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “See that you have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”
John 19:13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement—but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
Acts 12:21 On an appointed day, after putting on his royal apparel, Herod took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.
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a square yard, a square meter
(An idiom, literally: a step of a foot (a distance of approximately two and a half feet or a little less than a meter)) An extremely limited or restricted space
ExamplesActs 7:5 “But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he had no child.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- θεόςGod 1
- ΚαῖσαρCaesar, the Emperor 1
- πούςfoot 1
- ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
10 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπίon 14
- ἔμπροσθενbefore, in front of 4
- ἀπόfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Judgement seat, judgment place7.63
- Used of an official seat of judgment, as of Pilate seated on the judgment seat in Matthew 27:19 and John 19:13, and Gallio's judgment seat before which Paul is brought in Acts 18:12.
- A square yard, a square meter80.3
- Used of a measured extent of ground, as of God giving Abraham not even a foot of ground as an inheritance in Acts 7:5.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βήματος, τό (from ΒΑΩ, βαίνω) (fr. Homer (h. Merc.), Pindar down); 1. a step, pace: βῆμα…
1. a step, pace: βῆμα ποδός the space which the foot covers, a foot-breadth, Acts 7:5 (for כַּף־רֶגֶל, Deut 2:5, cf. Xenophon, an. 4, 7, 10; Cyril 7, 5, 6).
2. a raised place mounted by steps; a platform, tribune: used of the official seat of a judge, Mt 27:19; Jn 19:13; Acts 18:12, Acts 18:16; Acts 25:6, Acts 25:10,(17); of the judgment-seat of Christ, Rom 14:10 (L T Tr WH τοῦ Θεοῦ); 2 Cor 5:10; of the structure, resembling a throne, which Herod built in the theater at Caesarea, and from which he used to view the games and make speeches to the people, Acts 12:21; (of an orator's pulpit, 2 Macc. 13:26; Neh 8:4. Xenophon, mem. 3, 6, 1; Herodian, 2, 10, 2 (1, Bekker edition)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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