noun · feminine
biblas
Strong’sG976
a written book, roll, or volume
stem bibl-10 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
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;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G976 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbib'-los
Fromproperly, the inner bark of the papyrus plant, i.e. (by implication) a sheet or scroll of writing
King Jamesbook.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
or βυβλίον, τό, strip of βύβλος, Refs 4th c.BC+: hence, paper, document, Refs 5th c.BC+; β. ἀποστασίου notice of divorce, NT
2 ={βιβλίδιον}, petition to the Government, = Latin libellus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 ={δέλτος}, tablet, LXX
II book, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 book as the division of a work, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ β. Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 τὰ β. place in which books are kept, library, ἀνεθήκατε εἰς τὰ β. Refs 1st c.AD+
II.4 τὰ β. τὰ ἅγια the sacred books or LXX
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | biblas1×Βίβλος | biblais |
| object accusative | biblan | biblain1×βίβλους |
| direct address vocative | biblar | biblair |
| of, belonging to genitive | biblau1×βίβλου | biblaiu |
| to, for dative | bibla7×βίβλῳ | biblai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
bibla is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
biblas“book”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 1:1“book”Biblas genesiau Iēsu christou huiou David huiou …… of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
biblau“book”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 3:5… exaleifami tem onomem autou ek tau biblau tau zōau, kai homologami tem onomem …… blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess …
bibla“book”to, fordative singular7×
Mark 12:26… hoti egerolō ouk anagnōskava en ta bibla Mōusou epi tou batou pōs legata …… about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him …
Luke 3:4hōs grafotē en bibla logoiu Ēsaiou tou profētou; Fōnas boarōntou …as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the …
Luke 20:42autos gar David legatō en bibla psalmoiu; Legata kurios to kurio mu; …For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to …
Acts 1:20grafotē gar en bibla psalmoiu; Genitar tas epaulias autou erēmas …“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be …
Acts 7:42… stratia tou ouranou, kathōs grafotē en bibla toiu profētoiu; Mē sfagieim kai thusiain …… as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring …
Philippians 4:3… sunergoiu mu, hoiu teim onomeim en bibla zōau.… workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
Revelation 20:15… ei tinos ouk heuriskita en ta bibla tau zōau graforēntos, balita eis tan …… name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into …
biblain“books”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 19:19… toiu teim periergeim prassarantoiu sumferarantois tain biblain katakaiale enōpion pantoiu; kai sumpsēfizala tain …… had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of …