Search for crossword answers and clues
The pre-Christian Greek version of the Old Testament
Answer for the clue "The pre-Christian Greek version of the Old Testament ", 10 letters:
septuagint
Word definitions for septuagint in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Septuagint may refer to: Septuagint , a translation of the Hebrew Bible and Deuterocanonical books into Koine Greek . Septuagint manuscripts , the Library of Alexandria translation of Jewish scriptures into Koine Greek as it exists in various manuscript ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Note: The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Greek version of the Old Testament," 1630s, earlier as the word for the translators collectively (1570s), from Late Latin septuaginta (interpretes) "seventy (interpreters)," from Latin septuaginta "seventy," from septem "seven" (see seven ) + -ginta "tens, ...
Usage examples of septuagint.
Scriptures are merely blunders of the Septuagint translators, who rendered the word kinnor by about six different terms, where no distinction had been originally intended by the sacred writers.
England and France admit to be genuine and true, and which carry back the antiquity of the science of astronomy, together with the constellations, to within a few years of the Deluge, even on the longer chronology of the Septuagint.
Some, however, have thought that the Greek copies of the Septuagint version should be emended from the Hebrew copies.