biblion · book, scroll

What it means

biblion (βιβλίον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “book, scroll”.

Also written document.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A long writing on a scroll, like those of the prophets or the book of life.
2. An official paper, like a writ of divorce.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• book ×16
• scroll ×12
• books ×4
• certificate ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×3
• John×2
• Galatians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×2
• Revelation×23

• Matthew 19:7

  They say to him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to divorce her?”

• Mark 10:4

  And they said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.”

• Luke 4:17

  And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:

• Luke 4:20

  And rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

• John 20:30

  Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples that are not written in this book;

• John 21:25

  Now there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself could hold the books that would be written.

• Galatians 3:10

  For all who are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written: Cursed is everyone who does not remain in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.

• 2 Timothy 4:13

  When you come, bring the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.

• Hebrews 9:19

  For when every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

• Hebrews 10:7

  Then I said: Look, I have come —in the scroll of the book it is written about me— to do, O God, your will.

• Revelation 1:11

  saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

• Revelation 5:1

  And I saw in the right hand of the one who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

• Revelation 5:2

  And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”

• Revelation 5:3

  And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look at it.

• Revelation 5:4

  And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look at it.

• Revelation 5:5

  And one of the elders says to me, “Do not weep; look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so as to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

• Revelation 5:8

  And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

• Revelation 5:9

  And they sing a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered, and by your blood you bought for God people from every tribe and language and people and nation;

• Revelation 6:14

  And the sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved from their places.

• Revelation 10:8

  And the voice that I heard from heaven was again speaking with me and saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

• Revelation 13:8

  And all who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

• Revelation 17:8

  The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and goes to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and will be present.

• Revelation 20:12

  And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their works.

• Revelation 21:27

  And nothing unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who practices abomination and falsehood, but only those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

• Revelation 22:7

  And look, I am coming soon. Happy is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

• Revelation 22:9

  And he says to me, “See that you do not! I am a fellow slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

• Revelation 22:10

  And he says to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.

• Revelation 22:18

  I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;

• Revelation 22:19

  and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written about in this book.

And 5 more times.