Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βiβlíon/

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

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

Noun

βιβλίον • ‎(biblíon) n ‎(genitive βιβλίου); second declension

1. Strip of papyrus
2. Small book, tablet, letter
3. Any book or writing

Inflection

Derived terms

• βιβλιοπώλης ‎(bibliopṓlēs)

Descendants

• English: Bible, biblio-
• Greek: βιβλίο ‎(vivlío), Βίβλος ‎(Vívlos)
• Russian: библия ‎(biblija)

References

• βιβλίον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βιβλίον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βιβλίον» 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
• «βιβλίον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G975”, 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.
  • book idem, page 89.