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2007-09-04 04:30:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The word bible is 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 stemmed from the term (Greek: 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")
2007-09-04 04:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by onoscity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible comes from the Greek words ta biblia (single: 'biblion') meaning the books – any books. The words may have come from the port of Byblos in Syria, known to have been an exporter of papyrus. Biblos in old Greek originally meant the inner bark of the papyrus plant from which the earliest books were made.
The word hasn’t changed much in 2,000 years: in modern Greek it has become biblio and in English it comes through in words like bibliography, a booklist. The word papyrus itself gave us our English word ‘paper’.
The title ‘Bible’ is often used with the implication that this was the collection of books, the books you really ought to read, the right books. But as a name for the sixty-six books we call the Bible, it only really caught on in the fifth century AD – when the books had already been around for five centuries.
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2007-09-04 04:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Bible comes from a Greek word which means "books". The "Bible" is a collection of books and letters. The final collection was settled upon in the fourth century at the council of Rome under Pope Damusus.
2007-09-04 04:35:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's just The Book.
The Catholic Church compiled the books of the Bible through the Holy Spirit and Tradition.
2007-09-04 04:37:23 · answer #4 · answered by Vernacular Catholic 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word "Bible" comes from the Greek word "biblios" meaning "books" .
2007-09-04 04:38:31 · answer #5 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a word that gradually entered the vocabularly.
It means 'library'.
Originally, separate, little books were written.
Books like Deuteronomy, Ezra, Proverbs, etc.
The Jews kept them together.
They came to be 39 little books and put together, they were a small library ....or Biblia.
2007-09-04 04:38:00 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Biblios = Book, I believe in Greek.
2007-09-04 04:36:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Some dude.
2007-09-04 04:44:03 · answer #8 · answered by juun_yukiko 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was originally spelt "Bybull". A guy named J.E. Seuz named it after a drunken night around a camp fire where a group of guys wrote that "story".
2007-09-04 04:35:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
it is from a latin word...biblia....which means "book"
2007-09-04 04:35:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋