βίβλος, -ου, ἡ (variant form of βύβλος, the Egyptian papyrus, paper made from its fibrous coat),
[in LXX for סֶפֶר, the form βύβ- being sometimes used;]
a book, a roll, used much less freq. than βιβλίον, and with a "connotation of sacredness and veneration" (MM, Exp., x), Mt 1:1Mk 12:26, Lk 3:420:42Ac 1:207:4219:19; β. τ. ζωῆς, Phl 4:3, Re 3:520:15.†