septuagint

IPA: sɛptʃuʌdʒˈɪnt

Root Word: Septuagint

noun

  • (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.
  • (now rare) A group of 70 people or a collection of 70 things.
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Examples of "septuagint" in Sentences

  • It's article about the Septuagint.
  • The word is not used in the Septuagint.
  • The mention is absent from the Septuagint.
  • Loss of the Tetragrammaton in the Septuagint.
  • In the Greek of the Septuagint it means to guard.
  • The Septuagint suggests a different reading of this.
  • This distinction is maintained in the Septuagint as well.
  • Like Jews, Protestants disavow the newer books of the Septuagint.
  • The earlier versions take their enumeration from the Greek Septuagint.
  • At that point, the Septuagint went out of vogue in the Jewish community.

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