Greek noun (neuter) · G975
βιβλίον
biblionbib-lee'-on
a paper, letter, written document; a book, a roll
34 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: biblíon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G975is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G975
a roll
The King James renders it: bill, book, scroll, writing.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
biblion is rendered "a paper, letter, written document; a book, a roll". It stands 34 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Twenty-three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a paper, letter, written document".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 19:7“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
Matthew 19:7βιβλίον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-three of the word's thirty-four uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: a paper, letter, written document, and a book, a roll.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a paper, letter, written documentβ. ἀποστασίου, bill of divorce, Mat.19:7, Mrk.10:4. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 19:7“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and… |
| a book, a rollLuk.4:17 | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 4:17the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βίβλος | biblos | book | Uses10 |
| βιβλιαρίδιον | bibliaridion | little scroll | Uses3 |
All 34, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βιβλίον18
- βιβλίου6
- βιβλίῳ6
- βιβλία3
- βιβλίοις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular15N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular6N-DSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular6N-GSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural2N-APN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1N-DPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1N-NPN
Matthew
one use
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a roll
Mark
one use
They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a roll
Luke
three uses
the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: scroll of
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
John
two uses
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.
- βιβλίῳbiblionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: book
There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written.
- βιβλίαbiblianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: books
Galatians
one use
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- βιβλίῳbiblionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: book
2 Timothy
one use
When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
- βιβλίαbiblianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: books
Hebrews
two uses
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: book
Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
- βιβλίουbibliounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of book
Revelation
twenty-three uses
saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a book
Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a scroll
And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: scroll
The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a scroll
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.”
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: little scroll
And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
- βιβλίῳbiblionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: book
The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: book
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
- βιβλίαbiblianoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: books
- βιβλίονbiblionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: book
- βιβλίοιςbiblioisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: books
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- βιβλίῳbiblionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: book
“Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”
- βιβλίουbibliounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: book
But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”
- βιβλίουbibliounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: book
Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.
- βιβλίουbibliounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: book
I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
- βιβλίουbibliounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: book
- βιβλίῳbiblionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: book
And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.
- βιβλίουbibliounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: book
- βιβλίῳbiblionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: book
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.