Septuagint

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Septuagint \Sep"tu*a*gint\, n. [From L. septuaginta seventy.]
     A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it
     was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of
     seventy-two) translators.
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     Note: The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the
           number and names of the translators, the times at which
           different portions were translated, are all uncertain.
           The only point in which all agree is that Alexandria
           was the birthplace of the version. On one other point
           there is a near agreement, namely, as to time, that the
           version was made, or at least commenced, in the time of
           the early Ptolemies, in the first half of the third
           century b.c. --Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)
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     {Septuagint chronology}, the chronology founded upon the
        dates of the Septuagint, which makes 1500 years more from
        the creation to Abraham than the Hebrew Bible.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Septuagint
       n : 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

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Septuagint
     See {VERSIONS}.