Quick Definition
βιβλίον, ου, τό n.n. a papyrus roll
Strong's Definition
a diminutive of 976; a roll
KJV Usage: bill, book, scroll, writing
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ου | βίβλος
6.64 · Artifacts · Instruments Used in Marking and Writing
scroll, roll, book a document consisting of a scroll or book
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33.52 · Communication · Written Language
book the contents of a book
33.38 · Communication · Written Language
written statement, certificate, notice, record relatively short statements in written form
1 As noted in the case of ἐπιστολή[b] (33.48), there is an intimate semantic relationship between letter, document, and book as physical objects and the contents of such writings. For book as an object, see βίβλος[a] and βιβλίον[b] (6.64).
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βιβλίον biblion 34x
a written volume or roll, book, Lk. 4:17, 20; a scroll, bill, billet, Mt. 19:7; Mk. 10:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βιβλίον, -ου, τό
(dim. of βίβλος, q.v.), [in LXX also in the alternat. form βυβ-, chiefly for סֶפֶר and the most freq. of the cognate forms;]
a paper, letter, written document: β. ἀποστασίου, bill of divorce, Mt 19:7, Mk 10:4.
a book, a roll: Lk 4:17, 20 Jo 20:30 21:25, Ga 3:10, II Ti 4:13, He 9:19 10:7, Re 1:11 5:1-9 6:14 10:8 20:12 22:7-19; β. τ. ζωῆς, Re 13:8 17:8 20:12 21:27.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βιβλίον Wilcken shows that this latter word was the ordinary term for ‘‘petition” till the end of the third century: see 6. g. P Oxy VII. 10324 (A.D. 162) οὗ ἐπέδομεν Οὐολουσ[ίῳ Miatkiava τὼ ἡγεμονεύσαντι βιβλειδίου. . . ἀντίγραφον, ““copy of the petition which we presented to Volusius Maecianus, ex-praefect,” P Tebt 11. 2938 (c. A.p. 187) πρὸς τὸ ἐπιδοθέν σοι βιβλείδιον ὑπὸ M., ‘‘ with regard to the petition presented to you by M.,” P Oxy I. 79" (a notice of death—a.p. 181-92) (= Se/ections, p. 89) διὸ ἐπιδίδωμι [τὸ] βιβλείδιον ἀξιῶν ταγῆναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ τῶν τετελευτηκότων τάξει, “I therefore present this petition and ask that he be enrolled in the roll of the dead,” and P Grenf II. 61" (A.D. 194-8) ὅθεν ἐπιδί[δω]μι κ[α]ὶ ἀξιῶ ἐν καταχωρισμῷ γενέσθαι τοῦτο βιβλίδιον. rom the beginning of the fourth century βιβλίον or λίβελλος as a rule displaced βιβλίδιον in this connexion, e. g. P Oxy I. 8615 (A.D. 338) τούτου χάριν τὸ βιβλί[ον ἐπι]δίδωμι ἀξιῶν τοῦτον μετίαἹπεμί φθ]ῆναι, a petition that a certain man who had failed in a public duty should be sent for, 22. VI. 900! (A.D. 322) ἐκ τούτου ἠπίχθην τὰ βιβλία ἐπιδοῦναι, “1 therefore hasten to present this petition” (Edd.) Naturally the bulk of our citations refer to state papers of various kinds, or petitions sent in to a public official. The distinction between ὀοσ and paper easily vanishes when it is only a question of a single roll of greater or smaller length: the βιβλίον ἀποστασίου of Mt 197 (see 5.7. ἀποστάσιον) is a document comparable with the petitions. For pagers cf. P Petr II. 10 (2)? (iii/B.c.) θεὶς τὰ βυβλία ἐξῆλθον : the writer is a scribe who says he went to the Treasury office to render his account, and it seems natural to assume this to be referred to, though the editor renders ‘* books.” P Εν] 11. 834 (A.p. 138-61) π]ρὸς παράλημψίιν καὶ] καταγωγὴν βιβλίων, ‘to receive and forward the accounts” (Edd.). P Tebt 11. 315? (ii/A.p.) ἐὰν μὲν οὖν σχολὴν ἄγῃς γράψας [r]ov τὰ βιβλία ἄνελθε πρὸς ἐμέ, “" if you have time write up your books and come to me Ya finance inspector, who is a martinet (αὐστηρός), is immeThe word need not be further illustrated, so diately expected. but we may note the combination in P Oxy VIII. 1153+ (i/A.b.) ἐϊκομισάμην διὰ Ηρακλᾶτος τὰς κίστας [bv] τοῖς βιβλίοις, ‘the boxes with the books” (Ed.). For the spelling, BuB. or BiB. see Moulton Gram. 11. §35. The dissimilated form BiBAtoy—contrast the converse ἥμυσυ-greatly predominates in papyri: for Bu. cf. P Petr. II. τὸ (2)° and P Ryl II. 382, cited above, also BGU IV. 10967 (ifiia.p.), 1148°5 (B.c. 13), 11524 (B.c. 22). In inscrr. Michel Toorviii82 (¢, 8.0.200), for Br. Sy/7 653° (B.C. 91)—both Doric, and cf. Meisterhans Gr. §13.4 (p. 28) for the Attic record. The Ptolemaic papyri show more divergence than those dated a.p. See Mayser Gr. p. 102, Cronert Ae. Here. p. 21 f., Dziatzko Untersuchungen tiber ausgewthilte Kapitel des antiken Buchwesens (1900), and Maidhof Zz Begriffibestimmung der Koine, p. 303 ff. Amongst interesting compounds found in the papyri may be mentioned βιβλιομαχέω (P Oxy I. 68% (a.p. 131) ἐὰν βιβλιομαχή[σΊ]η, “if he presents counter-statements ”), βιβλιοφύλαξ (P Fay 31° (c. A.D. 129) βιβλ(ιοφύλαξι) ἐνκτήσεω(ν), “keepers of the property registers”), and βυβλιαφόρος (P Hal I. 7° (B.C. 232) εἴπερ μὴ τὸν βυβλιαφόρον Kal τὸν ἔφοδον exzéret[Ka]s, κε η]655 you have spoken to the letter-carrier and the controlofficer ἢ).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βιβλίον (biblion) — scroll. βιβλίον or βυβλίον, τό, strip of βύβλος, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: hence, paper, document, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. ἀποστασίου notice of divorce, [NT]
2. ={βιβλίδιον}, petition to the Government, = Latin libellus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
3. ={δέλτος}, tablet, [LXX]
II. book, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. book as the division of a work, ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ β. [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.3. τὰ β. place in which books are kept, library, ἀνεθήκατε εἰς τὰ β. [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.4. τὰ β. τὰ ἅγια the sacred books or [LXX]