Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βýβlos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vývlos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vívlos/

Proper noun

Βύβλος • ‎(Búblos) f ‎(genitive Βύβλου); second declension

1. Gubla; Byblos; Gebal; Jbeil, Lebanon

Inflection

Derived terms

• βύβλος ‎(búblos)

Descendants

• Greek: Βύβλος ‎(Vývlos)
• Latin: Byblos

References

• Βύβλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βῐ́βλος ‎(bíblos) Attic corruption

Noun

βῠ́βλος • ‎(búblos) f ‎(genitive βῠ́βλου); second declension

1. papyrus (both in reference to the plant and writings using the paper-like material derived from the plant)
2. book

Declension

Derived terms

• βύβλινος ‎(búblinos)
• βυβλίον ‎(bublíon)

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G976”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • papyrus idem, page 591.