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The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Koinē Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized: Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew.
The earliest surviving manuscripts of the Septuagint (abbreviated as LXX meaning 70), an ancient (first centuries BCE) translation of the ancient Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek, include three 2nd century BCE fragments from the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 801, 819, and 957) and five 1st century BCE fragments of Genesis, Exodus ...
The word nulla (the Latin word meaning "none") was used to represent 0, ... In theology and biblical scholarship, the Septuagint is often referred to as LXX, ...
The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine LXX) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint, is an edition of the Septuagint published in 1587, and commissioned by Pope Sixtus V. [ 1 ] The printing of the book "was worked off in 1586, but the work was not published until May 1587".
LXX: septuāgintā : 700: DCC: septingentī, septingentae, septingenta ... The adjective alter, altera, alterum meaning 'other [of two]' was more frequently used in ...
Joseph interpreting the dreams of the baker and the cupbearer, by Benjamin Cuyp, c. 1630. Zaphnath-Paaneah (Biblical Hebrew: צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ Ṣāp̄naṯ Paʿnēaḥ, LXX: Ψονθομφανήχ Psonthomphanḗch) is the name given by Pharaoh to Joseph in the Genesis narrative (Genesis 41:45).
The Septuagint (LXX) is a Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, translated in stages between the 3rd to 2nd century BCE in Alexandria, Egypt.. According to Michael Barber, the Torah and Nevi'im are recognized as canonical in the Septuagint, but the Ketuvim appear not to have been definitively canonized yet.
The Septuagint (LXX) translation of Isaiah 53, dated to roughly 140 BCE, [36] is a relatively free translation with a complicated relationship with the MT. Emanuel Tov has provided LXX/MT word equivalences for the passage, [37] and verse-by-verse commentaries on the LXX of Isaiah 53 are provided by Jobes and Silva, [38] and Hengel and Bailey. [39]