The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bible \Bi"ble\ (b[imac]"b'l), n. [F. bible, L. biblia, pl., fr. Gr. bibli`a, pl. of bibli`on, dim. of bi`blos, by`blos, book, prop. Egyptian papyrus.]
A book. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.
A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.
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(Fig.) a book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
Bible Society, an association for securing the multiplication and wide distribution of the Bible.
Douay Bible. See Douay Bible.
Geneva Bible. See under Geneva.
Wikipedia
A Bible society is a non-profit organization, usually ecumenical in makeup, devoted to translating, publishing, distributing the Bible at affordable costs and advocating its credibility and trustworthiness in contemporary cultural life. Traditionally Bible Society editions contain Scripture, without any notes or commentary; but in recent decades this principle has been relaxed somewhat, and such editions typically have what is generally accepted to be non-sectarian notes on alternate translations of words, or variations in the different available manuscripts.
Usage examples of "bible society".
Captain Capperbar (for such was his name) should have been brought up as a missionary, for he could canvert anything, and expend more profusely than any Bible Society.
A second tactic was to close the Iranian Bible Society and all Christian bookstores.
After an overwhelming backlash by religious leaders in 1997, the International Bible Society and Zondervan Publishers inked an agreement with leading evangelicals to placate the concerns about a politically corrected edition.
I'll break my indentures, as sure as my name's Tom Cob, and I'll set up an opposition, and I'll join the Friends of the People Society, and the Anti-Bible Society, and every other opposition Anti in the country.
Alexander Williamson, who stayed in similar establishments while ranging North China on behalf of the National Bible Society of Scotland.
Denisov, not being a member of the family, did not understand Pierre's caution and being, as a malcontent, much interested in what was occurring in Petersburg, kept urging Pierre to tell them about what had happened in the Semenovsk regiment, then about Arakcheev, and then about the Bible Society.
We drove east through Forty-eighth Street, and when we came abreast of the New York Bible Society House, he ordered the chauffeur to stop and insisted that we admire it.
Gospel abroad, for the Bible Society, and so spend the rest of his days.
He accepted work with a London Bible Society as a medical missionary and for some years held a succession of appointments in Rhodesia and Kenya and finally amongst the Zulu.
There were two from England - a Bible Society tract and an offer of old clothes from some association I had never heard of.