Bible

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The main religious text in Christianity.
• The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.
• The analogous holy book of another religion.

Noun

• A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.

Related

Similar words

• Christian Bible, Holy Bible, Good Book, Book
• Tanakh, Tanach, Jewish Bible, Hebrew Bible, (loosely) Old Testament
• bible

Origin

• From Middle English bible, from Medieval Latin biblia ("book") (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia), from Ancient Greek βιβλία ("books"), plural of βιβλίον, originally a diminutive of βίβλος, from βύβλος (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).
• Old English used biblioþece (from βιβλιοθήκη) and gewritu (whence English writs) for "the Scriptures".
• From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Isabel.