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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 13 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9 - And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the LORD with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:20 - Shall it be told him that I would speak?
Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 - Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:10 - A stream of fire issued
and came out from before him;
a thousand thousands served him,
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;
the court sat in judgment,
and the books were opened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
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