Septuagint

See also: septuagint

English

Etymology

From Late Latin Septuaginta, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as septuaginta translatio (“translation by the seventy”) and septuaginta interpretes (“the 70 interpreters”), calques of Koine Greek names such as οἱ ἐβδομήκοντα ἑρμηνευταί (hoi ebdomḗkonta hermēneutaí, “the 70 interpreters”) and οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the LXX”), deriving from the popular (but probably mistaken) belief that its translation of the Torah had been produced in 72 days by a team of 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem (6 from each tribe) summoned to Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛpˈtuədʒənt/, /sɛpˈtjuədʒənt/, /ˈsɛpʃəwəˌdʒɪnt/, /ˈsɛptʃəwəˌdʒɪnt/, /ˈsɛptəwəˌdʒɪnt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛptjʊədʒɪnt/, /ˈsɛptʃʊədʒɪnt/

Proper noun

Septuagint (countable and uncountable, plural Septuagints)

1. (now rare) The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
2. An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

Synonyms

• LXX

Derived terms

• septuagint, Septuagintal, Septuagintalist

Translations

an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek

• Arabic: اَلتَّرْجَمَة اَلسَّبْعِينِيَة f (at-tarjama s-sabʿīniyya)
• Armenian: Յոթանասնից թարգմանություն (Yotʻanasnicʻ tʻargmanutʻyun)

  Old Armenian: Եօթանասնից թարգմանութիւն (Eōtʻanasnicʻ tʻargmanutʻiwn)

• Catalan: Septuaginta
• Chinese: 七十士譯本／七十士译本 (Qīshíshìyìběn), 七十士译本 (qīshí shì yìběn)
• Czech: Septuaginta
• Danish: Septuaginta
• Dutch: Septuaginta f, Septuagint (nl) f
• Esperanto: Septuaginto
• Estonian: Septuaginta
• Finnish: Septuaginta
• French: Septante (fr)
• German: Septuaginta (de) f
• Greek: Μετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα (Metáfrasi ton Evdomíkonta), Εβδομήκοντα (el) (Evdomíkonta)
• Hebrew: תרגום השבעים m (targum ha-shiv‘iyím)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: Septuaginta
• Italian: Septuaginta
• Japanese: 七十人訳聖書 (shichijū-nin yaku seisho)
• Latin: Septuaginta
• Norwegian: Septuaginta
• Polish: Septuaginta (pl) f
• Portuguese: Septuaginta f
• Romanian: Septuaginta
• Russian: Септуаги́нта (ru) f (Septuagínta)
• Spanish: Septuaginta (es) f
• Swedish: Septuaginta
• Ukrainian: Септуаґі́нта f (Septuagínta)

References

• “Septuagint, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of older Septuaginta, perhaps influenced by English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛp.ty.aːˈɣɪnt/
• Hyphenation: Sep‧tu‧a‧gint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Proper noun

Septuagint f

1. Alternative form of Septuaginta.