βίβλος

See also: Βίβλος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bí.blos/ → /ˈβi.βlos/ → /ˈvi.vlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bí.blos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.blos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβi.βlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vlos/

Noun

βῐ́βλος • (bíblos) f (genitive βῐ́βλου); second declension

1. Attic form of βῠ́βλος (búblos)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ βῐ́βλος; τῆς βῐ́βλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βῐ́βλος hē bíblos	τὼ βῐ́βλω tṑ bíblō	αἱ βῐ́βλοι hai bíbloi
Genitive	τῆς βῐ́βλου tês bíblou	τοῖν βῐ́βλοιν toîn bíbloin	τῶν βῐ́βλων tôn bíblōn
Dative	τῇ βῐ́βλῳ têi bíblōi	τοῖν βῐ́βλοιν toîn bíbloin	ταῖς βῐ́βλοις taîs bíblois
Accusative	τὴν βῐ́βλον tḕn bíblon	τὼ βῐ́βλω tṑ bíblō	τᾱ̀ς βῐ́βλους tā̀s bíblous
Vocative	βῐ́βλε bíble	βῐ́βλω bíblō	βῐ́βλοι bíbloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βίβλινος (bíblinos)
• βιβλίον (biblíon)

Descendants

• English: Bible
• Greek: Βίβλος (Vívlos)

Further reading

• “βίβλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βίβλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βίβλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βίβλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G976 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• βίβλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bibulus idem, page 78.
  • book idem, page 89.
  • scroll idem, page 742.
  • volume idem, page 956.
  • work idem, page 988.