Bible
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Bible/ˈbʌɪb(ə)l/
▶noun
- 1 (the Bible) the Christian scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments.
■ the Jewish scriptures, consisting of the Torah or Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa or Writings.
- 2 (bible) informal a book regarded as authoritative.
– origin ME: via OFr. from eccles. L. biblia, from Gk (ta) biblia ‘(the) books’, from biblion ‘book’.
'Bible' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aaron's beard
- Aaron's rod
- apocalypse
- ark
- ASV
- Authorized Version
- Bible-basher
- Bible Belt
- biblical
- bibliomancy
- book
- calamus
- creation science
- dispensationalism
- Dives
- Elohim
- evangelical
- exodus
- form criticism
- fundamentalism
- genesis
- Goliath
- good
- Hagiographa
- Hebrew Bible
- Heptateuch
- hermeneutic
- Hexateuch
- Hittite
- Holy Scripture
- Holy Writ
- inspiration
- isagogics
- Jehovah
- Jezebel
- Kabbalah
- King James Bible
- law
- lectionary
- ledger
- lesson
- major prophet
- manna
- messiah
- Methodist
- minor prophet
- Moravian
- NEB
- New Testament
