Volume
King James Dictionary [1]
VOL'UME, n. L. volumen, a roll volvo, to roll. to make u long, in this word, is palpably wrong.
1. Primarily a roll, as the ancients wrote on long strips of bark, parchment or other material, which they formed into rolls or folds. Of such volumes, Ptolemy's library in Alexandria contained 3 or 700,000. 2. A roll or turn as much as is included in a roll or coil as the volume of a serpent. 3. Dimensions compass space occupied as the volume of an elephant's body a volume of gas. 4. A swelling or spherical body.
The undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.
5. A book a collection of sheets of paper, usually printed or written paper, folded and bound, or covered. A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume of sheets twice folded, a quarto and thus according to the number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo. The Scriptures or sacred writings, bound in a single volume, are called the Bible. The number of volumes in the Royal Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated. It is probable it may amount to 400,000.
An odd volume of a set of books, bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
6. In music, the compass of a voice from grave to acute the tone or power of voice.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
(2): ( n.) Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
(3): ( n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
(4): ( n.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
(5): ( n.) Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
vol´ū́m : This word (from Latin volvere , "roll"), twice used in the King James Version ( Psalm 40:7 (Hebrew meghillāh ); Hebrews 10:7 ), is better in English as "roll" in the Revised Version (British and American). See Roll .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( מַגַלָּה , Psalms 40:7, a Roll, as elsewhere rendered; Κεφαλίς , Hebrews 10:7, a Chapter ) . See Book.
