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Septuagint

Sep·tu·a·gint [ sép too ə jìnt, sép choo ə jìnt ]


noun 
Definition:
 
Greek version of Hebrew Bible: a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made in the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc to meet the needs of Greek-speaking Jews outside Palestine. The Septuagint contains some books not in the Hebrew canon.

[Mid-16th century. < Latin septuaginta "seventy"; because about seventy translators were said to have worked on it]
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