§Etymology 1[edit]
See bible.
§Pronunciation[edit]
§Proper noun[edit]
Bible (plural Bibles)
- The main religious text in Christianity.
- In my religion class we learn about the Bible, as well as religious texts of other religions.
- 2009, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, page 16:
- Many non-Christians regard portions of the Bible as “inspiring,” but they do not believe the Bible was “inspired by God” […]
- The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.
- She's Jewish, but she doesn't read the Bible because she's not religious.
- The analogous holy book of another religion.
§Derived terms[edit]
§Coordinate terms[edit]
- (religious texts) scripture, religious text; Adi Granth, Aqdas, Avesta, Bible, Book of Shadows, Dianetics, Geniocracy, Liber AL vel Legis, Ofudesaki, Qur'an, Satanic Bible, Tao Te Ching, Torah, Tripitaka, Veda (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
§Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from "Bible"
§Translations[edit]
Christian holy book
- Afrikaans: Bybel
- Albanian: Bibla (sq)
- Arabic: الإنْجِيل m (al-ʾinjīl), الكِتَاب المُقَدَّس m (al-kitāb al-muqaddas)
- Armenian: Աստվածաշունչ (Astvacašunčʿ)
- Asturian: Biblia f
- Azeri: Tövrat və İncil, Төврат вә Инҹил, İncil
- Belarusian: бі́блія f (bíblija), Бі́блія f (Bíblija)
- Bengali: বাইবেল (ba'ibel)
- Bulgarian: би́блия (bg) f (bíblija)
- Burmese: သမ္မာကျမ်း (my) (sammakyam:)
- Catalan: Bíblia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 聖經, 圣经 (sing3 ging1)
- Mandarin: 聖經 (zh), 圣经 (zh) (shèngjīng)
- Min Nan: 聖經, 圣经 (Sèng-keng)
- Cornish: Bibel m, Beybel m
- Czech: Bible (cs) f
- Danish: bibel (da) c
- Dhivehi: ބައިބަލް (baibal)
- Dutch: bijbel (nl) m
- Esperanto: Biblio
- Estonian: Piibel
- Ewe: Biblia
- Faroese: Bíblia f
- Finnish: Raamattu (fi)
- French: Bible (fr) f
- Galician: Biblia f
- Georgian: ბიბლია (biblia)
- German: Bibel (de) f
- Greek: Αγία Γραφή (el) f (Agía Grafí), Βίβλος (el) f (Vívlos)
- Greenlandic: biibili
- Gujarati: બાઇબલ (bā'ibal)
- Hebrew: ביבליה (bíbliya)
- Hindi: बाइबिल (bā'ibil), बाइबल (bā'ibal), इंजील m (in̄jīl)
- Hungarian: biblia (hu)
- Icelandic: biblía f
- Indonesian: alkitab, injil (id), Alkitab (id)
- Interlingua: biblia, Biblia
- Irish: Bíobla m
- Italian: Bibbia (it) f
- Japanese: 聖書 (せいしょ, seisho), バイブル (baiburu), 経典 (ja) (きょうてん, kyōten, けいてん, keiten)
- Jèrriais: Bibl'ye f
- Kannada: ಬೈಬಲ್ (kn) (baibal)
- Kazakh: Таурат және Інжіл (Tawrat jäne İnjil), інжіл (injil)
- Khmer: គម្ពីរគ្រិស្តសាសនា (kumpii krɨh saasnaa)
- Kirundi: Bibiliya
- Korean: 성경 (ko) (seonggyeong) (聖經 (ko)), 성서 (ko) (seongseo) (聖書 (ko))
- Kyrgyz: Библия (Bibliya), библия (bibliya)
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- Lao: ພະຄໍາພີ (pha kham phī), ພະຄຳພີ (pha kham phī)
- Latin: biblia f
- Latvian: Bībele
- Lithuanian: Biblija
- Macedonian: Би́блија f (Bíblija), Све́то Пи́смо n (Svéto Písmo)
- Malay: alkitab, Alkitab, Injil, kitab Injil
- Malayalam: ബൈബിൾ (ml) (baibiḷ)
- Maltese: Il-Bibbja f
- Maori: Paipera
- Marathi: बायबल (bāybal)
- Mongolian: библи (bibli)
- Nahuatl: huehuetlahtolli
- Navajo: Diyin God Bizaad
- Nepali: बाइबल (bā'ibal)
- Ngazidja Comorian: makalima ya Mngu class 6
- Norwegian: bibel (no) m
- Persian: کتاب مقدس (Kitâbe Moqaddas), انجیل (fa) (Enjil)
- Polish: Biblia (pl) f
- Portuguese: Bíblia (pt) f
- Romanian: Biblie (ro) f
- Russian: би́блия (ru) f (bíblija), Свяще́нное Писа́ние n (Svjaščénnoje Pisánije), Би́блия (ru) f (Bíblija)
- Scottish Gaelic: Bìoball m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Библија f, Свето Писмо n
- Roman: Biblija f, , Sveto Pismo n
- Sinhalese: බයිබලය (bayibalaya)
- Slovak: biblia (sk) f
- Slovene: Biblija (sl) f, Sveto pismo n
- Spanish: Biblia (es) f
- Swahili: Biblia (sw)
- Swedish: bibel (sv) c
- Tagalog: Biblya
- Tajik: Таврот ва Инҷил (Tavrot va Injil), Инҷил (Injil)
- Tamil: விவிலியம் (ta) (viviliyam)
- Tatar: Библия (Bibliya), библия (bibliya)
- Telugu: బైబిల్ (baibil)
- Thai: พระคัมภีร์ (prá kam-pee)
- Tok Pisin: Baibel
- Turkish: Kitab-ı Mukaddes (tr), Kutsal Kitap, İncil (tr)
- Turkmen: Injil, Инҗил
- Ukrainian: бі́блія (uk) f (bíblija), Бі́блія (uk) f (Bíblija)
- Urdu: بائبل (bā'ibil), انجیل اور تورات (injīl ōr tōrāt), انجیل m (injīl)
- Uyghur: ئىنجىل (ug) (injil)
- Uzbek: Tavrot va Injil, Таврот ва Инжил, injil (uz), Muqaddas Kitob
- Vietnamese: Kinh Thánh (vi)
- Volapük: bib (vo)
- Welsh: Beibl (cy) m
- Yup'ik: Qaneryaraq, Qaneryaraqegtaar
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holy book of another religion
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- Khmer: គម្ពីរសៃយ (kumpii say) (Buddhist scriptures)
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Bible (plural Bibles)
- A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.
- (specific version or copy): bible
§Etymology 2[edit]
From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Isabel.
§Proper noun[edit]
Bible
- A matronymic surname.
§Middle French[edit]
§Proper noun[edit]
Bible f
- The Bible (The Christian holy book; the Old and New Testaments)
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