septuagint

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Noun septuagint has 1 sense

Septuagint - 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
--₁ is a kind of Old Testament

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Septuagint

Noun

Definition: The Septuagint is a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible that was widely used by Greek-speaking Jews in the Hellenistic Jewish diaspora during the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE.

Example sentence: Scholars often refer to the Septuagint as an important ancient translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek.

Adjective

Definition: Pertaining to or relating to the Septuagint.

Example sentence: The Septuagintic text of Isaiah exhibits certain variations compared to the Masoretic Hebrew text.

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