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Septuagint¹

  • /sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/ US
  • /sɛpˈtju.ə.d͡ʒənt/ US
  • /ˈsɛp.ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ US
  • /ˈsɛp.t͡ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ US
  • /ˈsɛp.tə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ US
  • /ˈsɛp.tjʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/ UK
  • /ˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/ UK

Where it comes from

From Late Latin Septuaginta, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as septuaginta translatio (“translation by the seventy”) and septuaginta interpretes (“the 70 interpreters”), calques of Koine Greek names such as οἱ ἐβδομήκοντα ἑρμηνευταί (hoi ebdomḗkonta hermēneutaí, “the 70 interpreters”) and οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the LXX”), deriving from the popular (but probably mistaken) belief that its translation of the Torah had been produced in 72 days by a team of 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem (6 from each tribe) summoned to Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II.

proper noun Septuagints

  1. archaic, countable, uncountable The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.

    Similar: LXX

  2. countable, uncountable An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. 2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers (Peeters Leuven), page 503, Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; t

septuagint²

  • /sɛpˈtuəd͡ʒənt/ US
  • /sɛpˈtjuəd͡ʒənt/ US
  • /ˈsɛpʃəwəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ US
  • /ˈsɛpt͡ʃəwəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ US
  • /ˈsɛptəwəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ US
  • /ˈsɛptjʊəd͡ʒɪnt/ UK
  • /ˈsɛptʃʊəd͡ʒɪnt/ UK

Where it comes from

From Latin septuaginta (“seven tens, 70”), chiefly under the influence of the Septuagint and the story of its team of translators, q.v.

noun septuagints

  1. archaic A group of 70 people or a collection of 70 things. 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.

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name an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek

EspañolSeptuaginta
한국어칠십인역 성경 Chilsibinyeok seonggyeong
日本語七十人訳聖書
中文七十士譯本 /七十士译本 Qīshíshì Yìběn
PortuguêsSeptuaginta
FrançaisSeptante
DeutschSeptuaginta
ItalianoSeptuaginta
ΕλληνικάΜετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα Metáfrasi ton Evdomíkonta, Εβδομήκοντα Evdomíkonta
RomânăSeptuaginta
РусскийСептуаги́нта Septuagínta
العربيةاَلتَّرْجَمَة اَلسَّبْعِينِيَة at-tarjama s-sabʕīniyya
עבריתתרגום השבעים targúm hashiv'ím

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@misc{septuagint_2026,
  title = {septuagint},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/septuagint},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}