Look up: Septuagint

1. Septuagint
   [n] - the pre-Christian Greek version of the Old Testament
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2. Septuagint
   The oldest Greek version of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, traditionally made by 70 scholars. ...
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3. Septuagint
   Sep'tu·a·gint noun [ From Latin septuaginta seventy.] A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators. » The causes which produced it [ the Septuagin...
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4. septuagint
   A Greek version of the Old Testament; so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators. ... The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the number and names of the translators, the times at which different portions were translated, are all uncerta...
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5. Septuagint
   noun the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II
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6. Septuagint
   • (n.) A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
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7. Septuagint
   the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew, presumably made for the use of the Jewish community in Egypt ... [17 related articles]
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8. Septuagint
   Septuagint The Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, from Latin septem via septuaginta, seventy, for the traditional number of translators.
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9. Septuagint
   Septuagint (sep'tyOOujint) [Lat.,=70], oldest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandria, c.250 B.C. Legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records that it was done in 72 days by 72 translators for Ptolemy Philadelphus, which a...
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10. Septuagint
    The Greek version of the Old Testament (including the Apocrypha) translated by Jewish scholars in the third to second centuries B.C.E.; the first vernacular translation of the Bible and still used in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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11. Septuagint
    The `Septuagint` (), or simply "`LXX`", is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. It is referred to in critical works by the abbreviation <math> mathfrak{G} </math> or `G`. It was originally the designation for the Koine Greek translation of the Pentateuch, but came in tim...
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