1) Early version of the Bible 2) Judaism-related controversy 3) Old testament
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The Septuagint t, t, t, t, from the Latin word septuaginta (meaning seventy), is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. The title and its Roman numeral acronym LXX refer to the legendary seventy Jewish scholars who completed the translation as early as the late 2nd century BCE. As the primary Greek translation o...
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• (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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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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The oldest Greek version of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, traditionally made by 70 scholars. ...
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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 uncertain. The only point in which all agree is that Alex...
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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 Septuagint], the number and names of the translators, the t...
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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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n] - the pre-Christian Greek version of the Old Testament
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Septuagint The Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, from Latin septem via septuaginta, seventy, for the traditional number of translators.
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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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