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Lexicon :: Strong's G976 - biblos

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βίβλος
Transliteration
biblos (Key)
Pronunciation
bib'-los
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Primitive root
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:615,106

Strong’s Definitions

βίβλος bíblos, bib'-los; properly, the inner bark of the papyrus plant, i.e. (by implication) a sheet or scroll of writing:—book.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G976 in the following manner: book (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G976 in the following manner: book (13x).

  1. a written book, a roll, a scroll

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βίβλος bíblos, bib'-los; properly, the inner bark of the papyrus plant, i.e. (by implication) a sheet or scroll of writing:—book.
STRONGS G976:
βίβλος, -ου, ἡ, (or rather ἡ βύβλος [but the form βίβλ. is more common when it denotes a writing], the plant called papyrus, Theophrastus, hist. plant. 4, 8, 2f; [Pliny, h. n. 13, 11f (21f)]; from its bark [rather, the cellular substance of its stem (for it was an endogenous plant)] paper was made [see Tristram, Nat. Hist. etc., p. 433f; especially Dureau de la Malle in the Mémoires de l'Acad. d. Inscriptions etc. tom. 19 part 1 (1851), pp. 140-183, and (in correction of current misapprehensions) Prof. E. Abbot in the Library Journal for Nov. 1878, p. 323f, where other references are also given]), a written book, a roll or scroll: Matthew 1:1; Luke 3:4; Mark 12:26; Acts 1:20; τῆς ζωῆς, Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:5, etc.; see βιβλίον. [From Aeschylus down.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
1:1
Mark
12:26
Luke
3:4
Acts
1:20
Philippians
4:3
Revelation
3:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G976 matches the Greek βίβλος (biblos),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when [fn]they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the genealogy [fn]of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - And now if thou [fn]wilt forgive their sin, forgive it; and if not, blot me out of thy book, which thou hast written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - And the Lord said to Moses, If any one has sinned against me, I will blot them out of my book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - And the book of this law shall not depart out of thy mouth, and thou shalt meditate in it day and night, that thou mayest know how to do all the things that are written in it; then shalt thou prosper, and make thy ways prosperous, and then shalt thou be wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9 - And they taught in Juda, and there was with them the book of the law of the Lord, and they passed through the cities of Juda, and taught the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:20 - Have I a book or a scribe by me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 - (LXX 68:29) Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - (LXX 36:1) And these are the words of the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:10 - A stream of fire rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads attended upon him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time thy people shall be delivered, even every one that is written in the book.
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