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Septuagint
[ sep-too-uh-jint, -tyoo-, sep-choo- ]
noun
- the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries. : Sept.; : LXX
Septuagint
/ ˈɛʊəˌɪԳ /
noun
- the principal Greek version of the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha, believed to have been translated by 70 or 72 scholars
Other 51Թ Forms
- t··Գa adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Septuagint1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Septuagint1
Example Sentences
In this case, the Greek translation called the Septuagint provides the bridge between Isaiah and Matthew, in the form of one tiny translation mistake.
On the Ark is inscribed the name ΝΩΕ, the very form the name assumes in the Septuagint.
The whole verse is omitted in the unrevised Septuagint, but in a later recension the number thirty is inserted.”
How he treated the Septuagint, and how the Hexapla and the Tetrapla grew under nimble hands and learned heads, we must for the present defer to tell.
These eventually took fixed shape in the so-called Septuagint version of the Old Testament.
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