1. Book / scroll (written document) — A written document, scroll, or codex, referring to sacred or authoritative writings. The singular and plural forms are purely grammatical inflections of one semantic concept. Translations are uniform across languages: Spanish 'libro/libros' (book/books), Hindi 'पुस्तक/पुस्तकें' (book/books), Arabic 'سِفر/كِتاب/الكُتُب' (scroll/book/the books), Korean '책/책들을' (book/books), Swahili 'kitabu/vitabu' (book/books — a classic Bantu singular-plural noun class pair ki-/vi-). The word appears predominantly in references to the Book of Psalms (Luke 20:42, Acts 1:20), the book of life (Phil 4:3), and the book of Moses (Mark 12:26), always denoting a specific written literary composition. 10×
AR["الْكُتُبَ","سِفْرِ","كِتابِ","كِتَابُ","كِتَابِ"]·ben["গীতসংহিতার","পুস্তক","পুস্তকে","বই"]·DE["Buch"]·EN["Book","book","books"]·FR["Livre","livre"]·heb["הַסְּפָרִים","סֵפֶר"]·HI["पुस्तक","पुस्तकें","भजनों-की"]·ID["Kitab","kitab","kitab-kitab"]·IT["libro"]·jav["Kitab","kitab"]·KO["그","책","책-에","책-에서","책들을","책에서"]·PT["Livro","livro","livros,"]·RU["Книга","книге","книги","книги,"]·ES["Libro","libro","libros"]·SW["Kitabu","kitabu","vitabu"]·TR["-o","Kitap","içinde-","kitabinda","kitabında","kitapları"]·urd["کتاب","کتاب-سے","کتاب-میں","کتابیں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
Related to: βιβλίον or βυβλίον, τό, strip of βύβλος, Refs 4th c.BC+: hence, paper, document, Refs 5th c.BC+; β. ἀποστασίου notice of divorce, NT __2 ={βιβλίδιον}, petition to the Government, = Latin libellus, Refs 2nd c.AD+ __3 ={δέλτος}, tablet, LXX __II book, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.2 book as the division of a work, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ β. Refs 1st c.AD+ __II.3 τὰ β. place in which books are kept, library, ἀνεθήκατε εἰς τὰ β. Refs 1st c.AD+ __II.4 τὰ β. τὰ ἅγια the sacred books or LXX