VOLUME

vol'-um: This word (from Latin volvere, "roll"), twice used in the King James Version (Psalms 40:7 (Hebrew meghillah); Hebrews 10:7), is better in English as "roll" in the Revised Version (British and American).

See ROLL (SCROLL) .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.