bible
noun/ˈbaɪbl/
/ˈbaɪbl/
- the Bible[singular] the holy book of the Christian religion, consisting of the Old Testament and the New TestamentTopics Religion and festivalsc1
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- the Bible[singular] the holy book of the Jewish religion, consisting of the Torah (or Law), the prophets and the WritingsTopics Religion and festivalsc1
- [countable] a copy of the holy book of the Christian or Jewish religion
- [countable] a book containing important information on a subject, that you refer to very often
- the stamp-collector’s bible
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin biblia, from Greek (ta) biblia ‘(the) books’, from biblion ‘book’, originally a diminutive of biblos ‘papyrus, scroll’, of Semitic origin.
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