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means The sacred scripture of Christianity (and, as the Hebrew Bible, of Judaism), a collection of books by many authors compiled across centuries — and by extension, any book treated as the ultimate, authoritative reference on its subject.

from From Greek biblia, meaning 'books' — the plural of biblion, 'little book' or 'scroll,' itself a diminutive of biblos, the word for papyrus. That papyrus sense traces to Byblos, the Phoenician port city that was a major exporter of the stuff to the Greek world — so in a sense the book is named after a harbor town's trade good. Biblia passed into Latin, where it was treated as a singular feminine noun rather than a Greek plural, giving us 'the Bible' as one book rather than 'the books.'