पुराने नियम का सबसे पुराना यूनानी संस्करण; कहा गया है कि टॉल्मी II के अनुरोध पर यहूदी विद्वानों द्वारा हिब्रू से अनुवादित किया गया है

Noun:

बाइबिल के ओल्ड-टेस्टामेंट का ग्रीक रूपांतर जिसके संबंध में कहा जाता है कि इसे 270 ई. में 70 अनुवादकों द्वारा किया गया था,

septuagint's Usage Examples:

The history in Kings was not finally settled until a very late date, as is evident from the important variations in the Septuagint, and it is especially in the description of the time of Solomon and the disruption that there continued to be considerable fluctuations.'

5, where Lucian's recension and the Septuagint respectively add the Samaritans!), in view of the circumstances of Gedaliah's appointment (Jer.

5 (Septuagint 150 or 190; 130 in Jos.

8 [Septuagint]) contrast the fate foreshadowed in Jer.

41 on the basis of the Septuagint.

1, the Septuagint shows that the singular form " terebinth " stood in the original text.

1.24 (Septuagint); Exod.

CUSH, the eldest son of Ham, in the Bible, from whom seems to have been derived the name of the "Land of Cush," commonly rendered "Ethiopia" by the Septuagint and by the Vulgate.

The Septuagint translators did not read the clause which speaks of "priests and Levites," and 2 Chron.

To the above we have a good parallel in the Book of Daniel; for the variations of its two chief Greek Versions - that of the Septuagint and of Theodotion - go back to variations in the Semitic.

septuagint's Meaning':

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