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Bi·ble
/ ˈbībəl/
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(the Bible)
the Christian scriptures, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.
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(the Bible)
the Jewish scriptures, consisting of the Torah or Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa or Writings.
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(also bible)
a copy of the Christian or Jewish scriptures:
clutching a large black Bible under his arm.
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a particular edition or translation of the Bible:
the New English Bible.
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(bible) inf.
any authoritative book:
“Larousse Gastronomique,” the bible of French cooking.
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the scriptures of any religion.
ORIGIN: Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin biblia, from Greek biblia ‘books,’ from biblion ‘book,’ originally a diminutive of biblos ‘papyrus, scroll,’ of Semitic origin.
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Bibles and More relocates to North Charleston: ; Owners hope new location will attract more walk-ins
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 11/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...they wanted to own a Bible bookstore, they sought...from on high and found Bibles and More at Patrick Street...paid off on Nov. 3 when Bibles and More customers...including a gospel sing, Bible giveaways and complimentary...time the Taylors bought Bibles and More, David Taylor...
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Bible information modelling.
Magazine article from: Journal of Digital Information Management; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...question how information models of the Bible can be constructed. It is evident that...acceptable and satisfactory model of the Bible is extremely difficult, if not impossible...this paper is to examine the challenges in Bible information modelling. Specific attention...
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Bible sales go up this year, spiking after Sept. 11: ; People turning to spirituality to heal, find answers
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 12/26/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...vice president of Bible marketing for Zondervan...that sold 7.1 million Bibles during the last fiscal...Collegiate Devotional Bible and the African American Jubilee Bible, to name just a few. Typically, the Bibles repackage the same information...
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`Bibles' beget golden rules of kitchen
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/26/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...re all secular bibles. Now, there's...you. The "Cake Bible" and the "Pie and...a stack of "Cake Bibles"? Would you keep...the family "Bagel Bible"? It's not the...have written another Bible? What is it with...stuff? At best, the bibles are boasts. We...
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Bible's Second Coming; Scriptures Returning to Public Schools As Text for History and Literature
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/4/2000; ; 700+ words
; Derrek Martin's worn black Bible is a source of inspiration to him, God...the 41 other students who have completed Bible history courses at Chilhowie High School...national experiment aimed at returning the Bible to public schools decades after educators...
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Taiwan Bible Society brings fashion into Bible-selling
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 5/4/2007; 700+ words
; ...secretary of the Taiwan Bible Society and inventor of the trendy Bibles, said he came upon...ago, the Taiwan Bible Society has supplied most of the Bibles sold in Taiwan...about the Taiwan Bible Society's trendy Bibles. Chu Pao-lan...
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BIBLES IN THE CLASSROOM?
Magazine article from: NEA Today; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...It certainly is a growing trend: Bible classes in the public schools. A 2004...schools sponsor elective courses on the Bible. One publisher claims 423 school districts in 37 states have adopted its Bible curriculum, reaching over 220,000...
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Bible companion.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 2/6/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...was ready for the Bible to speak its own...a whole shelf of Bibles. Working from left...faith through the Bibles that have sustained...After the Scofield Bible and the RSV come...who created all my Bibles. In the end, I...HarperCollins Study Bible (NRSV) for his...
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BIBLE BECOMES TESTAMENT TO TREND OF NICHE MARKETING
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 9/30/1993; 700+ words
; ...mission of buying a Bible, prepare to be...overwhelmed. There are Bibles tailored for recovering...Elizabethan or Bibles in street slang...automatically think the Bible is relevant, read...What kind of Bible do you want? Study Bibles include notes...
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Bibles of every shape and size at Chennai exhibition
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/10/2005; 474 words
; ...in 30 days, apart from a Bible written on a scroll. The...sale included a variety of Bibles ranging from the very small...ladies like a bag, then metal Bibles, smallest with magnifying glass Bibles and Bible for the youth, Bible for...
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Bible
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Eliot's Indian Bible (1663), a translation...of non-English Bibles published during...the Catholic Douay Bible in Philadelphia in 1790. Most Protestant Bibles lacked the Apocrypha...distributed millions of Bibles in successive campaigns...of the King James Bible in every American...
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Bible, the
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...the Apocrypha; Bible excerpts in prose...children's Bibles; the Hebrew Scriptures...Children's Bibles and the Invention of Bible Children With an...1750 onward in Bibles for children of the laboring classes; Bible stories were changed...
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Bible, English versions
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Bible, English versions. 1. PRE-REFORMATION...Psalms and translations of portions of the Bible, sometimes abridged. From c. 1250 Middle...translations of the whole or part of the Bible. 2. THE REFORMATION PERIOD . The first...
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Bible, Geoffrey C. 1937-
Book article from: American Decades
Geoffrey C. Bible 1937- Cha1rman and ceo of philip morris...Born in Australia in 1937, Geoffrey C, Bible worked his way up the corporate ranks and...tobacco operations between 1987 and 1990, Bible championed the acquisition of local cigarette...
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Bible, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Bible, The. The Bible has been a nearly universal presence...founding in 1816, the American Bible Society (ABS) has been a leader...distributing about four billion complete Bibles, testaments, or selections. The Bible's conspicuous place in American...
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