βύβλος
See also: Βύβλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βῐ́βλος (bíblos) – Attic
Etymology
From Βύβλος (Búblos) (whence it was imported).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bý.blos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈby.blos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβy.βlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvy.vlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.vlos/
Noun
βῠ́βλος • (búblos) f (genitive βῠ́βλου); second declension
- papyrus (both in reference to the plant and writings using the paper-like material derived from the plant)
- book
Declension
Second declension of ἡ βῠ́βλος; τῆς βῠ́βλου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βῠ́βλος hē búblos | τὼ βῠ́βλω tṑ búblō | αἱ βῠ́βλοι hai búbloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βῠ́βλου tês búblou | τοῖν βῠ́βλοιν toîn búbloin | τῶν βῠ́βλων tôn búblōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βῠ́βλῳ têi búblōi | τοῖν βῠ́βλοιν toîn búbloin | ταῖς βῠ́βλοις taîs búblois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βῠ́βλον tḕn búblon | τὼ βῠ́βλω tṑ búblō | τᾱ̀ς βῠ́βλους tā̀s búblous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βῠ́βλε búble | βῠ́βλω búblō | βῠ́βλοι búbloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βύβλινος (búblinos)
- βυβλίον (bublíon)
Further reading
- “βύβλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βύβλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βύβλος 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
- βύβλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G976 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- papyrus idem, page 591.