What is the etymology of the word Bible?

Answer 1

Greek "biblia" means "books".

Answer 2

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary the word bible is from the early 1300s, from Anglo-Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin, as used in the phrase biblia sacra ("holy books").

This then stemmed from the term (Greek: τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια ta biblia ta hagia, "the holy books"), which derived from biblion ("paper" or "scroll", the ordinary word for "book"), which was originally a diminutive of byblos ("Egyptian papyrus"), possibly so called from the name of the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece[4].

Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton states that the Greek phrase ta biblia ("the books") was "an expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred books several centuries before the time of Jesus[5]," and would have referred to the Septuagint[6].

The Online Etymology Dictionary concludes that the Christian scripture was referred to in Greek as Ta Biblia as early as 223 CE.

The word "Bible" replaced Old English biblioðece ("the Scriptures") from the Greek bibliotheke (lit. "book-repository" from biblion + theke, meaning "case, chest, or sheath"), used of the Bible by Jerome and the common Latin word for it until Biblia began to displace it 9c.

Use of the word in a figurative sense, as in "any authoritative book" is from 1804.

Answer 3

It is the Greek word for book. It is the root for many words related to books in many languages that are linked with Greek languages.

Answer 4

Aramaic and Hebrew depending on which part you mean. G-d always spoke to the people in their appropriate mother tongue.

Blessings
David

EDIT O the title? Greek, yes

Answer 5

It come from the concept of a kept record

Answer 6

Biblia, book, Helios (holy) Sun book, holy bible...

Answer 7

Biblios meaning "little books".

Answer 8

the book

considering it was the only book "the church" remotely encouraged for 500 years, this isn't surprising.