2001 Translation

BIBLŌ, biblō

Sounds Like: BEE-bloh

Translations: (to) a book, (to) a scroll, (to) a volume, (to) a record

From the root: ΒΙΒΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a book, scroll, or any written document. It is used to denote a collection of writings, often in the form of a roll or scroll in ancient times. In the provided examples, it is used in the dative case, indicating the recipient or location of an action, such as 'in the book' or 'according to the book'.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0976 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:316

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 7:13
• Job — 19:23
• Mark — 12:26
• Luke — 3:4, 20:42
• Acts of the Apostles — 1:20, 7:42
• Philippians — 4:3
• Revelation — 13:8, 20:15

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:91, 20:142, 22:169

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:94
• Book 4 — 4:74, 8:303
• Book 8 — 1:1
• Book 12 — 3:135
• Book 13 — 1:1, 3:72, 5:173, 16:433
• Book 14 — 1:1
• Book 18 — 1:11
• Book 20 — 1:1

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 20:1, 59:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:40, 5:48, 7:6, 7:9
• Tobit — 7:12
• 2 Maccabees — 6:12
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 12:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 12:26
• Luke — 3:4, 20:42
• Acts — 1:20, 7:42
• Philippians — 4:3
• Revelation — 20:15

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΙΒΛΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΒΙΒΛΔΙΟΝ — book, a book, scroll, a scroll, volume, a volume, writing, a writing
• ΒΙΒΛΙΝΟΝ — of papyrus, made of papyrus, papyrus-like
• ΒΙΒΛΟΙ — books, scrolls, volumes
• ΒΙΒΛΟΙΣ — (to) books, (to) scrolls, (to) records
• ΒΙΒΛΟΝ — book, a book, scroll, a scroll
• ΒΙΒΛΟΣ — book, a book, scroll, a scroll, volume, a volume
• ΒΙΒΛΟΥ — of a book, of a scroll, of a record, of a document
• ΒΙΒΛΟΥΣ — books, scrolls, a book, a scroll
• ΒΙΒΛΩΝ — (of) books, (of) scrolls
• ΒΥΒΛΟΙΣ — to books, to scrolls, to papyrus rolls

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