Septuagint Definition

sĕpto͝o-ə-jĭnt, sĕp-to͝oə-jənt, -tyo͝o-
noun
A translation into Greek of the Hebrew Scriptures made in the 3d and 2d cent.
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Origin of Septuagint

  • Latin septuāgintā seventy (from the traditional number of its translators) septem seven septm̥ in Indo-European roots -gintā ten times dekm̥ in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Septuagint Sentence Examples

  • To the above we have a good parallel in the Book of Daniel; for the variations of its two chief Greek Versions - that of the Septuagint and of Theodotion - go back to variations in the Semitic.

  • The Septuagint translators did not read the clause which speaks of "priests and Levites," and 2 Chron.

  • The history in Kings was not finally settled until a very late date, as is evident from the important variations in the Septuagint, and it is especially in the description of the time of Solomon and the disruption that there continued to be considerable fluctuations.'

  • The Hebrew titles ascribe to him seventy-three psalms; the Septuagint adds some fifteen more; and later opinion, both Jewish p and Christian, claimed for him the authorship of the whole Psalter (so the Talmud, Augustine and others).

  • The word " oxen," which occurs in our version of the Scriptures, as well as in the Septuagint and Vulgate, denotes the species, rather than the sex.

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