[sep-too-uh-jint, -tyoo-, sep-choo-] 
| the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries. |
| Sep·tu·a·gint (sěp'tōō-ə-jĭnt', sěp-tōō'ə-jənt, -tyōō'-) n. A Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures that dates from the 3rd century B.C., containing both a translation of the Hebrew and additional and variant material, regarded as the standard form of the Old Testament in the early Christian Church and still canonical in the Eastern Orthodox Church. [Latin septuāgintā, seventy (from the traditional number of its translators) : septem, seven; see sept  in Indo-European roots + -gintā, ten times; see dek in Indo-European roots.]Sep'tu·a·gin'tal (-jĭn'təl) adj. |
Septuagint
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