Bible
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪbəl/
rhymes: -aɪbəl
Forms: form: the Bible
form: Bibles
form: The Bible
Etymology: From Middle English bible, from Medieval Latin biblia (“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia (“books”)), from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía, “books”), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”), originally a diminutive of βίβλος (bíblos, “book”), from βύβλος (búblos, “papyrus”) (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).
Old English used biblioþēce (from βιβλιοθήκη) and ġewritu (whence English writs) for "the Scriptures".
Senses: examples: text: In my religion class we learn about the Bible, as well as religious texts of other religions.
text: He spoke of the great demand for books. Had sold as many as fifty Bibles in one day. Has sold Bibles to nearly all the officials in the Nan-ch'ang prefecture and has several orders in hand for books of good binding.
ref: 1898 October, “Missionary Conference held at Kuling, Central China, August 22nd to 25th, 1898”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 39, number 10, page 496:
text: Many non-Christians regard portions of the Bible as “inspiring,” but they do not believe the Bible was “inspired by God” […]
ref: 2009, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, page 16:
text: “They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,” writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.
ref: 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN:
text: Second, the romance option brings up a unique issue: having sex with an alien. It’s somewhat difficult to say what the Christian should think on this issue because, well, the Bible doesn’t talk about aliens. Probably because they don’t exist (sorry to burst your bubble). Would this be considered bestiality? Or is it not bestiality since they are also beings capable of rational and ethical thought and self-reflection unlike usual animals?
ref: 2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2020, Blog:
glosses: The main religious text in Christianity.
examples: She's Jewish, but she doesn't read the Bible because she's not religious.
glosses: The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.
examples: text: The cult's ideological substance was the popular digest dubbed by foreigners the Little Red Book or the Bible of Maoism.
ref: 1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 360:
glosses: The analogous holy book of another religion or belief.
Synonyms: sense: Christian religious text
word: Christian Bible
sense: Christian religious text
word: Holy Bible
sense: Christian religious text
word: Good Book
sense: Christian religious text
word: Book
sense: Christian religious text
word: word of life
sense: Jewish religious text
word: Tanakh
sense: Jewish religious text
word: Tanach
sense: Jewish religious text
word: Jewish Bible
sense: Jewish religious text
word: Hebrew Bible
sense: Jewish religious text
word: Old Testament
word: other religious text
Derived terms: Bible banger
Bible basher
Bible bashing
Bible beater
Bible belt
Bible scholar
Bible school
Bible Society
bible society
Bible story
Bible study
Bible thumper
Bible thumping
Biblical
biblical
bibliolatry
Bishops' Bible
Canadian Bible Society
Golden Bible
King James Bible
none of these words are in the Bible
Satanic Bible
smuggler's Bible
swear on a stack of Bibles
Vacation Bible