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
- Not to mention the Iscariot which Le Verrier and Adams calculated into existence, there is more than a septuagint of _new_ planetoids.
- October 15th, 2008 at 4: 22 pm actually the kaballah and the mishnah are both pagan religons as well but came after the torah and septuagint
- In the time of Alexander, just a septuagint of years from the epoch of this unfortunate Cyrus, the most considerable troops of Darius were Greeks.
- Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that what follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek edition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the
- This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high Which brake hell's gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.
- Jerome: Joseph was not sold as many, following the LXX [septuagint], think for twenty pieces of gold, but as the Hebrew text has for twenty pieces of silver, [marg. note: Gen 37: 28] for it could not be that the servant should be more valuable than his Master.
- I'm no scholar, but when you ask them what they think about how the Book of Job is translated in the AngloSaxon version, versus the septuagint, and point out that if all these texts were considered canonical when they're contradictory then there's a problem with literality... they back of slowly as you chase them asking their thoughts on the dead sea scrolls :
- Of this word, Mr. Trench says: 'From the fact that the septuagint translates the same Hebrew word now by doulos, now by therapon, it will not follow that there is no difference between the words; nor yet that there may not be occasions when the one would be far more appropriately employed than the other; but only that there are other occasions which do not require the bringing out into prominence, of that which constitutes the difference between them.
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