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
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Proper noun
Septuagint (countable and uncountable, plural Septuagints)
- (now rare) The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
- An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek
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References
- “Septuagint, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Dutch
Etymology
Shortening of older Septuaginta, perhaps influenced by English.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Septuagint f
- Alternative form of Septuaginta.
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