[joo-bee, yoo-bey] 
| 1. | a screen with an upper platform, separating the choir of a church from the nave and often supporting a rood. |
| 2. | a rood loft. |
jube
(from the French jube), construction marking off the chancel, or sanctuary, of a church from the rest of the interior. Its mature medieval form consisted of three basic elements: a screen (known in England as a rood screen); a gallery, or loft, from which the words Jube, Domine, benedicere (hence jube) were spoken; and a crucifix (rood) surmounting the whole. See rood screen.
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