Septuagint
pronunciation
How to pronounce Septuagint in British English:
UK ['septjʊədʒɪnt]
How to pronounce Septuagint in American English:
US ['septʊrdʒɪnt]
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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
Word Origin
- Septuagint (n.)
- "Greek version of the Old Testament," 1630s, earlier as the word for the translators collectively (1570s), from Late Latin septuaginta (interpretes) "seventy (interpreters)," from Latin septuaginta "seventy," from septem "seven" (see seven) + -ginta "tens, ten times," from PIE *dkm-ta-, from *dekm- "ten" (see ten). So called in reference to the (incorrect) tradition that the translation was done 3c. B.C.E. by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars (in Middle English, the Seuenty turneres) from Palestine and completed in 70 or 72 days. The translation is believed now to have been carried out at different times by an undetermined number of Egyptian Jews. Often denoted by Roman numerals, LXX. Related: Septuagintal.
Example
- 1. Septuagint is a greek version of the old testament .
- 2. His examples are drawn from a wide array of sources : albanian , ancient hebrew , film dubbing and graphic novels , legal documents ( huge amounts of translation required ) and the septuagint , the ancient greek translation of the hebrew bible .
- 3. The book of psalms has various names in the hebrew , septuagint , and vulgate texts .
- 4. The order in the masoretic text differs from that in the septuagint .
- 5. According to the septuagint rendering of ezek .