Bible

See also: bible

English

Etymology

See bible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪbəl/
• Rhymes: -aɪbəl

Proper noun

Bible (plural Bibles)

an open Bible

1. 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” […]

2. 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.

3. The analogous holy book of another religion.

Derived terms

• Satanic Bible

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

• (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

Terms derived from "Bible"

Bible basher Bible bashing Bible belt Bible scholar

Bible story Bible study Bible thumper biblical

bibliolatry King James Bible swear on a stack of Bibles

Translations

Christian holy book

• Afrikaans: Bybel
• Albanian: Bibla (sq)
• Arabic: الإنْجِيل m (al-ʾinjīl), الكتاب المقدس m (al-kitāb al-muqáddas)
• Armenian: Աստվածաշունչ (Astvacašunčʿ)
• Asturian: Biblia  f
• Azeri: Tövrat və İncil, Төврат вә Инҹил
• Belarusian: біблія f (bíblija), Біблія f (Bíblija)
• Bengali: বাইবেল (bā'ibēl)
• Bulgarian: библия (bg) f (bíblija)
• Burmese: သမ္မာကျမ်း (my) (thama kjan:)
• Catalan: Bíblia (ca) f
• Chinese:
• Cornish: Bibel m, Beybel m
• Czech: Bible (cs) f
• Danish: bibel (da) c
• Dutch: bijbel (nl) m
• Esperanto: Biblio
• Estonian: Piibel
• Ewe: Biblia
• 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)
• Indonesian: alkitab, injil (id), Alkitab (id)
• Interlingua: biblia, Biblia
• 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 Injil)
• Khmer: គម្ពីរគ្រិស្តសាសនា (kumpii krɨh saasnaa)
• Kirundi: Bibiliya
• Korean: 성경 (ko) (seong-gyeong) (聖經 (ko)), 성서 (ko) (seongseo) (聖書 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: Библия (Bibliya)
• Latin: biblia f
• Latvian: Bībele

• Lithuanian: Biblija
• Macedonian: Библија f (Bíblija), Свето Писмо n (Svéto Písmo)
• Malay: alkitab, Alkitab, Injil, kitab Injil
• Malayalam: ബൈബിൾ (ml) (baibil)
• Maltese: Il-Bibbja f
• Mandarin: 聖經, 圣经 (zh) (shèngjīng)
• Maori: Paipera
• Marathi: बायबल (bāybal)
• Mongolian: библи (bibli)
• Nahuatl: huehuetlahtolli
• Navajo: Diyin God Bizaad
• Nepali: बाइबल (bā'ibal)
• 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: библия (ru) f (bíblija), Священное Писание n (Svjaščénnoje Pisánije), Библия (ru) f (Bíblija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Bìoball m
• Serbo-Croatian: Библија f, Biblija f, Свето Писмо n, 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)
• Tamil: விவிலியம் (ta) (viviliyam)
• Tatar: Библия (Bibliä)
• Telugu: బైబిల్ (baibil)
• Thai: พระคัมภีร์ (prá kam-pee)
• Tok Pisin: Baibel
• Turkish: Kitab-ı Mukaddes (tr), Kutsal Kitap, İncil (tr)
• Turkmen: Injil, Инҗил
• Ukrainian: біблія (uk) f (bíblija), Біблія (uk) f (Bíblija)
• Urdu: بائبل (bā'ibil), انجیل اور تورات (injīl ōr tōrāt), انجیل m (injīl)
• Uzbek: Tavrot va Injil, Таврот ва Инжил
• Vietnamese: kinh Thánh
• Volapük: bib (vo)
• Welsh: Beibl (cy) m
• Yup'ik: Qaneryaraq, Qaneryaraqegtaar

Jewish holy book

• Finnish: Raamattu (fi), heprealainen Raamattu (fi)
• Hebrew: תנ״ך m (tanákh), מקרא (he) m (miqrá)
• Macedonian: Танак m (Tának)

• Malay: Injil, kitab Injil
• Thai: ทานาคห์ (Tanakh)
• Vietnamese: kinh Thánh

holy book of another religion

• Finnish: raamattu (fi), pyhä kirja (fi)

• Khmer: គម្ពីរសៃយ (kumpii say) (Buddhist scriptures)

Noun

Bible (plural Bibles)

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

Synonyms

• (specific version or copy): bible

See also

• Bible on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Bible” on Wikisource. Wikisource

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Middle French

Proper noun

Bible f

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