This question was /is inspired by the Word of the Day for Thursday, January 21, 2010, which, surprise, surprise, was “bibelot”. Which, if you didn’t know (Like me) is “a small decorative object without practical utility; a trinket.” Yes, it doesn’t mean a lot of Bibles as some might have jokingly implied! Nor of one who has lots of Bibles! (Who is looking at me now?) The word for one who is a lover of Books in General (and not just the Bible) is Bibliophile.
Again, Bibelot has absolutely nothing what soever to do with the Bible (as I had first and mistakenly thought,) but in fact is derived from the Old French beubelot, or beubelet, "a small jewel, a trinket," from a reduplication of bel, "beautiful," from Latin bellus, "pretty, handsome." It is related to bauble.”
So once again what looks like on paper, (but pronounced “bibelot \BEE-buh-loh\,) had absolutely nothing to do with Bibles. Just once again showing the need for us always to check out what we think we know with an authoritative source, doesn’t it? For words, this will mean checking out our Dictionaries more often before we voice our opinions, won’t it?
For life in general, and particularly for Christians however, it will mean checking out our Bibles more often too! Otherwise, instead of speaking authoritatively on the subject, we will simply become small decorative objects without any practical use! Yes, just mere trinkets!
Is that what you really want to be, a mere useless trinket or bibelot? Or a useful and effective child of god and a genuine Bibliophile?
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