Words the Bible translates as book
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- biblionβιβλίονa written document: a scroll, book, or official paper set down to be read
- sepherסֵפֶרa written document: anything committed to writing, from a letter to a legal deed to a book
- biblosβίβλοςa book: a whole written work, in practice a rolled scroll, named as a complete volume and usually identified by its author or its contents
- megillahמְגִלָּהa scroll: a rolled length of leather or papyrus written on in columns and unrolled to be read
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