βίβλῳ (biblo)

βίβλῳ is an Ancient Greek form of βίβλος, meaning “book, papyrus roll”. It is the dative singular feminine noun or dative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Βίβλος, “Biblos — a city of Phoenicia, seated on a rising ground near the sea, at the foot of Lebanon, between…”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum 12·3: … λέσθαι, χῆνες ἀνέστησαν ὑπὲρ τοῦ πατρίου θεοῦ καὶ τῆς πατρίδος ἀμύνεσθαι; εἰ δέ, ὥσπερ Πολύβιος ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ βίβλῳ περὶ τῶν τότε τὴν Ῥωμαίων πόλιν καταλαβόντων ἱστόρηκε Κελτῶν, ἀληθές ἐστιν ὅτι προσπεσούσης αὐτοῖς ἀγγελίας φ …

New Testament, Luke 20.42: αὐτὸς γὰρ Δαυεὶδ λέγει ἐν Βίβλῳ Ψαλμῶν Εἶπεν Κύριος τῷ κυρίῳ μου Κάθου ἐκ δεξιῶν μου

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.16·3: … υ κατέστη τὸν νοῦν. ‘ἀλλὰ καὶ Θεόδεκτος” εἶπεν “ὁ των τραγῳδιῶν ποιητής, θέλων ἔν τινι δράματι τῶν ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ βιβλῳ γεγραμμένων μνησθῆναι, ἀλγήσας τὰ ὄμματα ἐπηρώθη· καὶ τὸ αἴτιον γνοὺς ἀπηλλάγη τῆς συμφορὰς, δεηθεὶς τοῦ θεοῦ …

All forms of βίβλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.