Bible

See also: bible

English

Etymology

See bible.

Adjective

Bible (not comparable)

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Proper noun

Bible (plural Bibles)

an open Bible

1. The Christian holy book.
2. The Jewish holy book that was largely incorporated into the Christian Bible.
3. The analogous holy book of another religion.
4. A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of any of the above.

Synonyms

• (Christian holy book): Christian Bible, Holy Bible, Good Book
• (Jewish holy book): Tanakh, Tanach, Jewish Bible, Hebrew Bible, (loosely) Old Testament
• (other holy book): bible
• (specific version or copy): bible

Derived terms

Terms derived from "Bible"

• Bible basher
• Bible bashing
• Bible belt
• Bible scholar

• Bible story
• Bible study
• Bible thumper
• biblical

• bibliolatry
• King James Bible
• swear on a stack of Bibles

Translations

Christian holy book

• Afrikaans:
• Albanian:
• Arabic: الإنْجِيل m (al-'injiil), الكتاب المقدس m (al-kitaab al-muqáddas)
• Armenian: Աստվածաշունչ (Astvacašunčʻ)
• Azeri: ,
• Belarusian: ,
• Bengali:
• Bulgarian: библия (bg) f (bíblija)
• Catalan: Bíblia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖經／圣经 (shèngjīng), 圣经 (shèngjīng)

• Czech: Bible (cs) f
• Danish: bibel (da) c
• Dutch: bijbel (nl) m
• Esperanto:
• Estonian: Piibel
• Ewe: Biblia
• Finnish: Raamattu (fi)
• French: Bible (fr) f
• Georgian:
• German: Bibel (de) f
• Greek: Αγία Γραφή f (Agía Grafí), Βίβλος f (Vívlos)
• Gujarati:
• Hebrew: ביבליה (bíbliya)
• Hindi: , ,
• Hungarian: biblia (hu)
• Indonesian: , ,
• Interlingua: biblia,
• Italian: Bibbia (it) f
• Japanese: 聖書 (せいしょ, seisho), バイブル (baiburu), 経典 (きょうてん, kyōten, けいてん, keiten)
• Kannada:
• Kazakh:
• Kirundi: Bibiliya
• Korean: 성경 (ko) (seong-gyeong) (聖經), 성서 (seongseo) (聖書 (ko))
• Kyrgyz:
• Latin: biblia f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian:
• Lithuanian:
• Macedonian: Библија f (Bíblija), Свето Писмо n (Svéto Písmo)
• Malay: ,
• Malayalam:
• Maltese:
• Marathi:
• Mongolian:
• Nahuatl: huehuetlahtolli
• Navajo: Template:tø
• Nepali:
• Norwegian: bibel (no) m
• Persian: کتاب مقدس (Kitâbe Moqaddas), انجیل (Enjil)
• Polish: Biblia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bíblia (pt) f
• Romanian: Biblie (ro) f
• Russian: библия (ru) f (bíblija), Священное Писание n (Svjaščénnoje Pisánije), Библия f (Bíblija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Bioball Template:f
• Serbo-Croatian: Template:tø, Template:tø, Template:tø, Template:tø
• Sinhalese:
• Slovak: biblia (sk) f
• Slovene: Biblija (sl) f, Sveto pismo n
• Spanish: Biblia (es) f
• Swahili:
• Swedish: bibel c
• Tagalog:
• Tajik:
• Tamil:
• Tatar:
• Telugu: బైబిల్ (baibil)
• Thai: พระคัมภีร์ (prá kam-pee)
• Turkish: Kitab-ı Mukaddes, Kutsal Kitap
• Turkmen: ,
• Ukrainian: ,
• Urdu: , ,
• Uzbek: ,
• Vietnamese:
• Welsh: Beibl

Jewish holy book

• Hebrew: תנ״ך m (tanákh), מקרא m (miqrá)
• Macedonian: Танак m (Tának)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Thai: ทานาคห์ (Tanakh)

See also

• Bible on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Template:sourcelite