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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 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:9 - And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 -
Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
And not be written with the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:10 - A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
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