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βιβλίον or βυβλίον , τό,
A.strip of βύβλος, Thphr.HP4.8.4: hence, paper, document, Hdt.1.123, 3.128, Ar.Av.974, etc.; “τὸ β. τοῦ ψηφίσματος” IG22.1.61; β. ἀποστασίου notice of divorce, Ev.Matt.19.7.
2. = βιβλίδιον, petition to the Government, = Lat. libellus, BGU422 (ii A. D.), POxy.86.16 (iv A. D.), etc.
3. = δέλτος, tablet, LXX To.7.14.
II. book, Eup.304, Theognet.1.8, Pl.Ap.26d, etc.; “μέγα β. ἴσον τῷ μεγάλῳ κακῷ” Call.Fr.359.
2. book as the division of a work, “ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ β.” Dsc.2 Praef., Ph.1.329, etc.
3. τὰ β. place in which books are kept, library, “ἀνεθήκατε εἰς τὰ β.” D.Chr.37.8.
4. τὰ β. τὰ ἅγια the sacred books or Scriptures, LXX 1 Ma.12.9; τὰ β. τοῦ νόμου ib.1.56.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 974
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.123
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.128
    • New Testament, Matthew, 19.7
    • Plato, Apology, 26d
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 12.9
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 1.56
    • Old Testament, Tobit, 7.14
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