origination of the word bible?

Question

besides the obvious someone asked me where the word bible originated from and if it was a hebrew word the only answer i could come up with was gods word but the question really was why that word was choosen for that book and if it has a special meaning behind it

Answer 1

The word Bible comes from the Latin and Greek words meaning “book,” a fitting name, since the Bible is the Book for all people, for all time. It’s a book like no other, in a class by itself.

Answer 2

The Jews called their Holy Books, "the Scriptures" and the Greek and Latin used a similar word, Biblios and Biblia, which means books or library.

The Bible is a collection of 66 books.

39 books were written mostly in Hebrew by Jewish prophets of the Old Testament and 27 books written mainly in Koine Greek, written by first century disciples of Jesus.

The term Bible originated as the result of the what was put on the cover of the first printed book in history, the Guttenberg Bible.

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Answer 3

Bible comes from the same root as Biblia ....meaning library.
The Bible was not made as one complete whole.
Many little books were written, like Proverbs, Judges, Nehemiah, etc., all on their own.
The Jews were responsible for putting 66 of those books into one volume.
It gradually became known as the Bible ....the library of God's knowledge to mankind.

Answer 4

From the Greek word "biblia" which means little books. And biblia was derived from "biblos" a word which meant both "book" and the "papyrus plant" that was used at that time for paper.

Answer 5

"Biblios" is the Koin Greek word for library. The Bible is a collection of separate books. Thus, a library.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

No, it just means book. For a long time, it was the only book there was. You know, they had to be copied by hand until Gutenberg invented his machine.

Answer 8

"Bible" comes from the Greek and simply means book.

Answer 9

It's just a book .

Answer 10

From the root word bibble.