Septuagint

Meaning of Septuagint

noun, singular proper noun

a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), including the Apocrypha, made for Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC and adopted by the early Christian Churches.

mid 16th century (originally denoting the translators themselves): from Latin septuaginta ‘seventy’, because of the tradition that it was produced, under divine inspiration, by seventy-two translators working independently.

Information about Septuagint

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Septuagint is: Septuagints.
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Hyphenation of Septuagint

Sep-tu-agint

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • Septuagint is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with Septuagint

septuagint, sigint

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