bible society
Noun
Meaning
bible society (plural bible societies)
(Christianity) an organisation which promotes, distributes and, on occasion, translates the Holy Bible.
Examples
Bibles are provided by the Interconfessional Bible Society of Albania.
In 1970, the Philippine Bible Society translated the Bible into modern Tagalog.
History Biblica headquarters in Colorado Springs Biblica was founded December 4, 1809, in New York City as the New York Bible Society by a small group including Henry Rutgers, William Colgate and Theodorus Van Wyke.
A stained-glass window commemorating Tyndale was made in 1911 for the British and Foreign Bible Society by James Powell.
Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society ) is the worldwide publisher and copyright holder of the NIV, and licenses commercial rights to Zondervan in the United States and to Hodder & Stoughton in the UK.
But now the TNIV, a product of some of the finest Bible scholars in the world and of the highly-regarded International Bible Society, regularly uses “they” as a singular pronoun.