(the Bible) the sacred book of Christians, comprising the Old Testament and the New Testament
the Jewish scriptures
any book containing the sacred writings of a religion
There is no agreement about the exact contents of the Bible. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles contain Old Testament books that were not written in or have not survived in Hebrew; Protestant Bibles usually omit these books. The ‘books’ were originally written on separate scrolls or sheets of papyrus and were only gathered into one volume hundreds of years after their composition. This process indicates the supreme importance that was attached to these writings — Professor John Rogerson
(Bible) a copy or an edition of the Bible
an authoritative book
the fisherman's bible
Middle English via French and Latin from Greek biblion book, from byblos papyrus. The word is derived ultimately from Byblos, the name of an ancient Phoenician city from which papyrus was exported