Book
βίβλοςStrong’s G0976biblos
Appears in 10 verses of the New Testament
In short
Biblos is the Greek word usually translated “book” and “books”. It appears in 10 verses of the New Testament.
“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”
Meaning
Usually translated “book” and “books”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- book 9
- books 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 3
- Luke 2
- Revelation 2
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- Philippians 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 12:26And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
- Luke 3:4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Luke 20:42And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
- Acts 1:20For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
- Acts 7:42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
- Acts 19:19Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Greek dictionary
βίβλος biblos · book
βίβλος, -ου, ἡ (variant form of βύβλος, the Egyptian papyrus, paper made from its fibrous coat), [in LXX for סֶפֶר, the form βύβ- being sometimes used ;] a book, a roll, used much less frequently than βιβλίον, and with a "connotation of sacredness and veneration" (MM, Exp., x), Mat.1:1 Mrk.12:26, Luk.3:4 20:42 Act.1:20 7:42 19:19; β. τ. ζωῆς, Php.4:3, Rev.3:5 20:15.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “book” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOOK, noun
[Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.]
- A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume.
- A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “book”
BOOK, verb transitive
To enter, write or register in a book
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.