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- the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II
How To Use Septuagint In A Sentence
- flagon," but a "cake," a confection, as the Septuagint renders it, made of flour and honey. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- It would be a pleasure to return to one's desk in Septuagint College and resume one's ordinary work.
- Dr. G, in the NT as in the Septuagint, it's regarded to be a calque from Hebrew and Aramaic. And now for something completely different
- Heb. libneh, is the equivalent of Greek stachté, used by Septuagint in the above passages of Gen.; whether ladanum was meant is not clear, as it is frequently the Greek rendering of Heb. nataf. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- The Septuagint translates the consonants hyper ton Alloiothesomenon; Vulg., pro iis qui commutabuntur, "for those who shall be changed". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Vulg: servire.] [Footnote 16: It is also remarkable that in all these cases, whether the Septuagint employs the word "dulia," or "latria," the word in the Hebrew is precisely the same, [Hebrew: avad]. Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Wherefore, as Origen had carefully compared the Greek version of the Septuagint with the Hebrew text; and as he puzzled and confounded the learned Jews, by urging upon them the reading "to death" in this place; it seems almost impossible not to conclude, both from Origen's argument and the silence of his Jewish adversaries, that the Hebrew text at that time actually had the word agreeably to the version of the seventy. Evidence of Christianity
- The "forty years" joined in the Hebrew and Septuagint, and below, Heb 3: 17, with "I was grieved," is here joined with "they saw. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Evangelist renders "the meek," after the Septuagint, is the same which we have found so often translated "the poor," showing how closely allied these two features of character are. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The word translators used for almah in the Septuagint is the Greek word parthenos, which unequivocally means “virgin.” 101 Amazing Truths about Jesus
