βιβλίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Attic corruption, possibly by assimilation, of Ancient Greek βυβλίον ‎(bublíon).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /biblí.on/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /biblíon/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /βiβlíon/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /vivlíon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /vivlíon/

Noun

βιβλίον • ‎(biblíon) n ‎(genitive βιβλίου); second declension

1. Strip of papyrus
2. Small book, tablet, letter
3. Any book or writing

Inflection

Second declension of βιβλίον, βιβλίου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βιβλίον	τὼ βιβλίω	τὰ βιβλίᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ βιβλίου	τοῖν βιβλίοιν	τῶν βιβλίων
Dative	τῷ βιβλίῳ	τοῖν βιβλίοιν	τοῖς βιβλίοις
Accusative	τὸ βιβλίον	τὼ βιβλίω	τὰ βιβλίᾰ
Vocative	βιβλίον	βιβλίω	βιβλίᾰ
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

• βιβλιοπώλης ‎(bibliopṓlēs)

Descendants

• English: Bible, biblio-
• Greek: βιβλίο ‎(vivlío), Βίβλος ‎(Vívlos)
• Russian: библия ‎(biblija)

References

• βιβλίον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βιβλίον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βιβλίον» 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
• «βιβλίον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G975”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • book idem, page 89.