Sep|tu|a|gint

Sep|tu|a|gint
Sep|tu|a|gint «SEHP chu uh jihnt, -tyu-», noun.
the Greek translation of the Old Testament that was made before the time of Christ. According to tradition, the first part of the Old Testament, the Pentateuch, was translated from Hebrew to Greek by seventy Jewish scholars brought for this purpose to Alexandria by Ptolemy II of Egypt. Abbr: LXX (no periods).
[earlier, the seventy translators < Late Latin septuāgintā (interpretes) seventy (interpreters) < Latin]

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