"Septuagint" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/ [General-American], /sɛpˈtju.ə.d͡ʒənt/ [General-American], /ˈsɛp.ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ [General-American], /ˈsɛp.t͡ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ [General-American], /ˈsɛp.tə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/ [General-American], /ˈsɛp.tjʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Typheuss-Septuagint.wav Forms: Septuagints [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{der|en|LL.|Septuaginta}} Late Latin Septuaginta, {{der|en|grc-koi|-}} Koine Greek Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Septuagint (countable and uncountable, plural Septuagints)
  1. (now rare) The team of translators who produced the Septuagint. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Synonyms: LXX Derived forms: septuagint, Septuagintal, Septuagintalist
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  2. (biblical) An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Wikidata QID: Q29334 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Bible, Books, Christianity, Judaism, Seventy Translations (an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek): اَلتَّرْجَمَة اَلسَّبْعِينِيَة (at-tarjama s-sabʕīniyya) [feminine] (Arabic), Յոթանասնից թարգմանություն (Yotʻanasnicʻ tʻargmanutʻyun) (Armenian), Septuaginta (Catalan), 七十士譯本 (Chinese Mandarin), 七十士译本 (Qīshíshì Yìběn) (Chinese Mandarin), Septuaginta (Czech), Septuaginta (Danish), Septuaginta [feminine] (Dutch), Septuagint [feminine] (Dutch), Septuaginto (Esperanto), Septuaginta (Estonian), Septuaginta (Finnish), Septante (French), Septuaginta [feminine] (German), Μετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα (Metáfrasi ton Evdomíkonta) (Greek), Εβδομήκοντα (Evdomíkonta) (Greek), תרגום השבעים (targum ha-shiv‘iyím) [masculine] (Hebrew), Septuaginta (Indonesian), Septuaginta (Italian), 七十人訳聖書 (shichijū-nin yaku seisho) (Japanese), Septuaginta [neuter] (Latin), Septuaginta (Norwegian), Եօթանասնից թարգմանութիւն (Eōtʻanasnicʻ tʻargmanutʻiwn) (Old Armenian), Septuaginta [feminine] (Polish), Septuaginta [feminine] (Portuguese), Septuaginta (Romanian), Септуаги́нта (Septuagínta) [feminine] (Russian), Septuaginta [feminine] (Spanish), Septuaginta (Swedish), Септуаґі́нта (Septuagínta) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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