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Lexicon :: Strong's G976 - biblos

Aa
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 10 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:1 - The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26 - But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:4 - As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:42 - For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:20 - For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:42 - But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:19 - And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:3 - And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:5 - He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:15 - And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.
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