Judgement seat
βῆμαStrong’s G0968bēma
Appears in 12 verses of the New Testament
In short
Bēma is the Greek word usually translated “judgment seat”, “length” and “throne”. It appears in 12 verses of the New Testament.
“When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.”
Meaning
Usually translated “judgment seat”, “length” and “throne”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- judgment seat 10
- length 1
- throne 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 8
- Matthew 1
- John 1
- Romans 1
- 2 Corinthians 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- John 19:13When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
- Acts 7:5And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
- Acts 12:21And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
- Acts 18:12And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
- Acts 18:16And he drave them from the judgment seat.
- Acts 18:17Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
Greek dictionary
βῆμα bēma · judgement seat
βῆμα, -τος, τό (βαίνω), [in LXX: Deu.2:5 (מִדְרָךְ), Neh.8:4 (מִגְדָּל), I Est.9:42, Sir.19:30 45:9, 2Ma.13:26 * ;] 1. a step, stride, pace: Act.7:5. 2. a raised place, a platform reached by steps, originally that in the Pnyx at Athens from which orations were made; frequently of the tribune or tribunal of a Roman magistrate or ruler: Mat.27:19, Jhn.19:13, Act.12:21, 18:12, 16, 17 25:6, 10, 17; β. τοῦ θεοῦ, Rom.14:10; τ. Χριστοῦ, 2Co.5:10. † (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “length” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LENGTH, noun
- The extent of anything material from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as the length of a church or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
- Extent; extension.
- A certain extent; a portion of space; with a plural.
- Space of time; duration, indefinitely; as a great length of time.
All definitions and other forms of “length”
- Long duration.
- Reach or extent; as, to pursue a subject to a great length
- Extent; as the length of a discourse, essay, or argument.
- Distance.
- At length at or in the full extent.
- At last; at the end or conclusion.
LENGTH, verb transitive
To extend. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.