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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbible, fromMedieval Latinbiblia(“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter pluralbiblia(“books”)), fromAncient Greekβιβλία(biblía,“books”), plural ofβιβλίον(biblíon,“small book”), originally a diminutive ofβίβλος(bíblos,“book”), fromβύβλος(búblos,“papyrus”) (from the ancientPhoenician city ofByblos which exported this writing material).

Old English usedbiblioþēce (fromβιβλιοθήκη) andġewritu (whence Englishwrits) for "the Scriptures".

Proper noun

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the Bible (pluralBibles)

An open Bible
  1. The main religious text inChristianity.
    In my religion class we learn about theBible, as well as religious texts of other religions.
    • 1898 October, “Missionary Conference held at Kuling, Central China, August 22nd to 25th, 1898”, inChinese Recorder and Missionary Journal‎[1], volume39, number10,page496:
      He spoke of the great demand for books. Had sold as many as fiftyBibles in one day. Has soldBibles to nearly all the officials in the Nan-ch'ang prefecture and has several orders in hand for books of good binding.
    • 2009,Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, page16:
      Many non-Christians regard portions of theBible as “inspiring,” but they do not believe theBible was “inspired by God”[…]
    • 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, inCNN‎[2]:
      “They wave theirBibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,” writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.
    • 2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, inThe Lutheran Column‎[3], archived fromthe original on17 September 2020, Blog‎[4]:
      Second, the romance option brings up a unique issue: having sex with an alien. It’s somewhat difficult to say what the Christian should think on this issue because, well, theBible doesn’t talk about aliens. Probably because they don’t exist (sorry to burst your bubble). Would this be considered bestiality? Or is it not bestiality since they are also beings capable of rational and ethical thought and self-reflection unlike usual animals?
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Bible.
  2. TheJewish holy book that was largelyincorporated into the Christian Bible.
    She's Jewish, but she doesn't read theBible because she's not religious.
  3. Theanalogous holy book of another religion or belief.
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Christian holy book
Jewish holy book—seeTanakh
holy book of another religion

Noun

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Bible (pluralBibles)

  1. A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.
    • 1842, A. D. Eddy,Black Jacob, page38:
      He had just become able to read, with much effort, short sentences in hisBible, and was constantly engaged during his leisure hours in studying its pages.
    • 2014 November 1, Tony Bonnici, “US tourist held in North Korea felt ‘compelled to leave Bible’”, inThe Times‎[6],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on27 August 2023‎[7]:
      An American imprisoned for nearly six months in North Korea has admitted that he deliberately left aBible in a nightclub, in one of his first major interviews since his release.[…]“I felt once I left theBible somewhere that God would take it the rest of the way into the hands of some kind of Christian organisation, and I’d be able to waltz out of country fat, dumb and happy, no problem... But God had other plans.”
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  • (specific version or copy):bible

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Etymology 2

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From aMiddle English diminutive of the given nameIsabel.

Proper noun

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Bible

  1. Asurname originating as a matronymic.

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Proper noun

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Bible f (relational adjectivebiblický)

  1. theBible(The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments)

Declension

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Declension ofBible (soft feminine)
singularplural
nominativeBibleBible
genitiveBibleBiblí
dativeBibliBiblím
accusativeBibliBible
vocativeBibleBible
locativeBibliBiblích
instrumentalBiblíBiblemi

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French

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Etymology

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FromLatinbiblia, fromAncient Greekτάβιβλία(tá biblía, literally“the books”).

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Bible f

  1. theBible(The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments)

Middle English

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Bible

  1. alternative form ofbible

Middle French

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Bible f

  1. TheBible(The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments)
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