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# bible

«bible» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The holy book of Christians; the Christian Bible contains…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the Bible, bibles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (the Bible, capital B) The holy book of Christians; the Christian Bible contains the Old Testament and the New Testament, and the Hebrew Bible is the holy book of Jews. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#m1)

2) (a bible) A copy of this book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#m2)

3) (informal) The most useful and trusted book on a subject: this cookbook is my bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Jews call their holy book the Tanakh (Torah, Prophets, Writings), and the Torah, the first five books, is the heart of it. In the primary lessons: In RE (religious education) lessons pupils learn stories from the Bible and about how Christians and Jews use it. In everyday talk "the bible of football" means the most trusted guide. Phrases: Bible story, family Bible, swear on the Bible, my bible (informal).

### examples

- Three Hebrew words are used in the Bible to represent the idea of making, producing or creating. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x1)
- Bible dictionaries generally give the word as Cherubim, but in Hebrew the initial letter is always K and not Ch. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x2)
- Most literally, it means ‘waste(land)’, the lifeless open desert, a translation of [Genesis 1:2] so far captured in English only by Robert Alter’s The Hebrew Bible (2019), who poetically renders תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ tohu vavohu as “waste and welter”; cf. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x3)
- Christians read the Bible in church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x4)
- The story of Noah's Ark comes from the Bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x5)
- My grandparents have a big old family Bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x6)
- (informal) This guidebook is the hikers' bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x7)
- In court, some people swear on the Bible to tell the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x8)
- We read a Bible story in RE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x9)
- Her chief inheritance had been an old Bible, which she read and valued. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/#x10)

### note

Write "the Bible" with a capital B for the holy book; small b for the informal meaning. Adjective: biblical. Different religions have different holy books, such as the Qur'an and the Torah.

### In the corpora

- [The Queen of Sheba visits him in the Bible; Arabic tradition calls her Bilqis, Kipling's Balkis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/30/)
- ["The good book" means the Bible.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/7/)
- [The Bible's story of the Tower of Babel was probably inspired by a real ziggurat in Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/17/)
- [Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and other languages so ordinary people could read it themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/12/)
- [Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the Bible, made by God and placed in the Garden of Eden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.