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'Books' in the Bible

From there [the tribe of] Judah went against the inhabitants of Debir (the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher [city of books and scribes]).

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law (the five books) of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; and the king granted him everything that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

But beyond this my son, [about going further than the words given by one Shepherd], be warned: the writing of many books is endless [so do not believe everything you read], and excessive study and devotion to books is wearying to the body.

“A river of fire was flowingAnd coming out from before Him;A thousand thousands were attending Him,And ten thousand times ten thousand were standing before Him;The court was seated,And the books were opened.

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem would end; and it was seventy years.

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were recorded one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

And many of those who had practiced magical arts collected their books and [throwing book after book on the pile] began burning them in front of everyone. They calculated their value and found it to be 50,000 pieces of silver.

When you come bring the coat that I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged according to what they had done as written in the books [that is, everything done while on earth].

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ספר 
C@phar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

ספרה ספר 
Cepher 
Usage: 186

βιβλιαρίδιον 
Bibliaridion 
Usage: 4

βιβλίον 
Biblion 
Usage: 31

βίβλος 
Biblos 
Usage: 10