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The corpus record

βιβλίον

biblion · τό

strip of βύβλος

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Where it lives

  • Regnorum IV 44 · 25.43/10k
  • Revelation 23 · 23.25/10k
  • Baruch 3 · 11.87/10k
  • Paralipomenon II 22 · 11.18/10k
  • Esdras II 13 · 10.95/10k
  • Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 105 · 9.81/10k
  • Regnorum III 17 · 8.89/10k
  • 2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
  • Jeremias 22 · 7.94/10k
  • Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
  • Deuteronomium 12 · 5.37/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βιβλίον · biblion — LSJ

strip of βύβλος, paper, document, notice

strip of βύβλος, Thphr. HP 4.8.4: hence, paper, document, Hdt. 1.123, 3.128, Ar. Av. 974, etc.; τὸ β. τοῦ ψηφίσματος IG 2(2).1.61; β. ἀποστασίου notice of divorce, Ev.Matt. 19.7.

2 petition

= βιβλίδιον, petition to the Government, = Lat. libellus, BGU 422 (ii A. D.), POxy. 86.16 (iv A. D.), etc.

3 tablet

= δέλτος, tablet, LXX To. 7.14.

II book

book, Eup. 304, Theognet. 1.8, Pl. Ap. 26d, etc.; μέγα β. ἴσον τῷ μεγάλῳ κακῷ Call. Fr. 359.

2 book

book as the division of a work, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ β. Dsc. 2 Praef., Ph. 1.329, etc.

3 place in which books are kept, library

τὰ β. place in which books are kept, library, ἀνεθήκατε εἰς τὰ β. D.Chr. 37.8.

4 books

τὰ β. τὰ ἅγια the sacred books or Scriptures, LXX 1 Ma. 12.9; τὰ β. τοῦ νόμου ib. 1.56.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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