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βίβλος
bíblos · Greek · Strong's G976 · 10 occurrences
The KJV renders 5 different Hebrew and Greek words as “book”
How the KJV renders it
book
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
Answers that weigh this word
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
- Is purgatory taught in scripture?
- Is hell eternal conscious torment or annihilation?
- Will everyone ultimately be saved?
- Does continuing to sin after conversion cost you your salvation?
- What is the second death in Revelation?
Where it appears
10 occurrences in the Greek text.
Acts 1:20 · N-DSF
For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’
Acts 7:42 · N-DSF
But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army 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 · N-APF
Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Luke 3:4 · N-DSF
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 · N-DSF
David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
Matthew 1:1 · N-NSF
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mark 12:26 N-DSFPhilippians 4:3 N-DSFRevelation 3:5 N-GSFRevelation 20:15 N-DSF
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