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[Footnote 49: "In this catalogue of _books which are no books -- biblia a biblia_ -- I reckon court calendars, directories, pocket-books, draught-boards bound and lettered on the back, scientific treatises, almanacs, statutes at large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson,
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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The standard example is Greek neuter plural "biblia" meaning "books"; singular is "biblion", which stays neuter plural in Latin, but passes into French as "la bible", whence we have it as a singular.
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Pg. 177, triple quote mark after "biblia," changed to double quote mark. (the plural "biblia,")
A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Augustus Hopkins Strong 1878
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This stemmed from the Greek term τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια (ta biblia ta hagia), “the holy books”, which derived from βιβλίον (biblion), [4] “paper” or “scroll,” the ordinary word for “book”, which was originally a diminutive of βύβλος (byblos, “Egyptian papyrus”), possibly so called from the name of the Phoenician port Byblos (also known as Gebal) from whence Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece.
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010
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Byblos had long been a shipping center for Egyptian goods, including papyrus, so that the Greeks who first used this material for scrolls called their books biblia after the town thus our word Bible.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Subordinate to this form of beauty in the Gothic cathedral, and so also with the rose window, is the theological scheme of the ‘lights’ in the window which may be read as a biblia pauperum.
The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 4 & conclusion 2009
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Byblos had long been a shipping center for Egyptian goods, including papyrus, so that the Greeks who first used this material for scrolls called their books biblia after the town thus our word Bible.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Byblos had long been a shipping center for Egyptian goods, including papyrus, so that the Greeks who first used this material for scrolls called their books biblia after the town thus our word Bible.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Es un libro de muchos misterios resueltos, y es una de las mejores historias de la biblia.
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The word bible derives from the Greek phrase employed by Hellenized Jews and later by Jewish Christians to refer to their sacred books—ta biblia.
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