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Once again, take care! Greek ''biblos'' doesn't mean 'book' (it's 'papyrus'), and ''la Biblia'' isn't Latin (though ''biblia'' is)! --[[User:Petrus|Petrus]] 11:22, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
Once again, take care! Greek ''biblos'' doesn't mean 'book' (it's 'papyrus'), and ''la Biblia'' isn't Latin (though ''biblia'' is)! --[[User:Petrus|Petrus]] 11:22, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
:Found the source...''biblos'' does mean ''book''...but before that it came from ''byblos'', meaning papyrus. ''biblos'' in turn led to the Latin word ''biblia'', and the word ''bible'' came to us from that via the French. The line shall be updated. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 16:09, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
:Found the source...''biblos'' does mean ''book''...but before that it came from ''byblos'', meaning papyrus. ''biblos'' in turn led to the Latin word ''biblia'', and the word ''bible'' came to us from that via the French. The line shall be updated. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 16:09, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
:The original meaning of biblos is indeed parpyrus, scroll, paper. The usage of the word to mean book occurs a bit later in Koine, although biblion (little book) was more common. Biblia is from the plural of biblion, and comes from the original title of the Greek version of the bible, ta biblia ta hagia --{{polytonic|τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια}} -- meaning "the holy books"
:BTW, the word was ''never'' Byblos -- that was the name of a Phonoecian city that produced papyri, biblos was then derived from the town name with an iota replacing the upsilon. [[User:NousEpirrhytos|NousEpirrhytos]] 08:29, 7 April 2007 (EDT)