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Papyrus
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Papyrus names 3 things on this site
- Papyrus, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Papyrus 967, a manuscript witness.The oldest substantial Greek copy of Ezekiel, Daniel and Esther, written about a century before the great codices.
- Papyrus Bodmer II (P66), a manuscript witness.A nearly complete Gospel of John, with a working scribe's corrections still visible on the page.
Featured studies
1 resultVerses
5 results- VerseJob 8:11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
- VerseJob 9:26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
- VerseIsaiah 35:7The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
- VerseIsaiah 18:2which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of…
- VerseExodus 2:3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along…
Manuscripts
9 results- ManuscriptPapyrus 967The oldest substantial Greek copy of Ezekiel, Daniel and Esther, written about a century before the great codices.
- ManuscriptPapyrus Bodmer II (P66)A nearly complete Gospel of John, with a working scribe's corrections still visible on the page.
- ManuscriptPapyrus Bodmer VII–VIII (P72)The oldest surviving copy of 1 Peter, 2 Peter and Jude — bound into somebody's private anthology.
- ManuscriptPapyrus Bodmer XIV–XV (P75)Luke and John in one early codex. Its text runs very close to Codex Vaticanus, which shows that the text Vaticanus carries was already in circulation well before Vaticanus was…
- ManuscriptPapyrus Bodmer III (the Bohairic John)The oldest manuscript of the Coptic dialect that became the Egyptian church's liturgical Bible — a complete Gospel of John from the fourth century.
Words (Strong's)
4 results- WordH5488 סוּף · çûwph (Hebrew)a reed, especially the papyrus. The Hebrew word stands 28 times in the original text.
- WordH16 אֵבֶה · ʼêbeh (Hebrew)the papyrus. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH1573 גֹּמֶא · gômeʼ (Hebrew)properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity). The Hebrew word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordG976 βίβλος · bíblos (Greek)properly, the inner bark of the papyrus plant, i.e. (by implication) a sheet or scroll of writing. The Greek word stands 10 times in the original text.
Topics
1 resultApologetics
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3 results- VoiceDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
- VoicePhileas of ThmuisPhileas was a man of rank before he was a bishop. Eusebius describes him as distinguished by his public services and his standing in his own country, and by his skill in…
- VoiceMelito of SardisMelito was bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor in the second half of the second century — a city with a wealthy, ancient Jewish community whose enormous synagogue archaeologists…