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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, , (or rather 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 -

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time[fn] that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 -

This is the document containing the family[fn] records of Adam.[fn] On the day that God created man,[fn] he made him in the likeness of God;

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 -

“Now if you would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book you have written.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 -

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will erase from my book.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 -

“This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to meditate on[fn] it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9 -

They taught throughout Judah, having the book of the LORD’s instruction with them. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:20 -

Should he be told that I want to speak?

Can a man speak when he is confused?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 -

Then Job died, old and full of days.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 -

Let them be erased from the book of life

and not be recorded with the righteous.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 -

This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining exiled elders, the priests, the prophets, and all the people Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:10 -

“A river of fire was flowing,

coming out from his presence.

Thousands upon thousands served him;

ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.

The court was convened,

and the books were opened.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 -

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 -

At that time

Michael, the great prince

who stands watch over your people, will rise up.

There will be a time of distress

such as never has occurred

since nations came into being until that time.

But at that time all your people

who are found written in the book will escape.

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