βίβλος
scroll
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 7 times (70%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G976 appears — 10 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 3:4 βίβλῳ n dat sg fem As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
- Luke 20:42 βίβλῳ n dat sg fem David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 1:20 βίβλῳ n dat sg fem For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate, Let no one dwell therein,' and, 'Let another take his office.'
- Acts 7:42 βίβλῳ n dat sg fem But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Acts 19:19 βίβλους n acc pl fem Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Philippians 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 3:5 βίβλου n gen sg fem He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Revelation 20:15 βίβλῳ n dat sg fem If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“scroll” is the headline sense of the Greek noun βιβλος (bíblos). First canonically at Matthew 1:1, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Acts. It shares a root with βιβλιον. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G976 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 30%
- Luke 2 verses 20%
- Revelation 2 verses 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 50%
- Gospels 4 verses · 40%
- Johannine 2 verses · 20%
- Revelation 2 verses · 20%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Book 12×
- American Standard Version: Book 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Book 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Book 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G976 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G976 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G976 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G976 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a written book, a roll, a scroll
Word origin
Origin: primitive root
Properly the inner bark of the papyrus plant that is (by implication) a sheet or scroll of writing : - book.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G976 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βίβλῳ bíblō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 12:26 | 7 |
| Βίβλος Bíblos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 1:1 | 1 |
| βίβλου bíblou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 3:5 | 1 |
| βίβλους bíblous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 19:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G976, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βιβλος appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 8 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:4 βίβλος
- Exodus 32:32 βίβλος
- Joshua 1:8 βίβλος
- 2 Chronicles 17:9 βίβλος
- Job 37:20 βίβλος
- Psalms 68:29 βίβλος
- Jeremiah 36:1 βίβλος
- Daniel 7:10 βίβλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G976) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:4 βίβλος This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 5:1 βίβλος This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
- Exodus 32:32 βίβλος Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
- Exodus 32:33 βίβλος Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
- Joshua 1:8 βίβλος This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- 2 Chronicles 17:9 βίβλος They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
- Job 37:20 βίβλος Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
- Job 42:17 βίβλος So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Psalms 68:29 βίβλος Because of your temple at Jerusalem, Kings shall bring presents to you.
- Jeremiah 36:1 βίβλος It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
- Daniel 7:10 βίβλος A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
- Daniel 9:2 βίβλος in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G976) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
