Meaning Of The Word Septuagint

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Septuagint in American English
a translation into Greek of the Hebrew Scriptures made several centuries b.c.
noun: 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

Septuagint in British English
noun: the principal Greek version of the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha, believed to have been translated by 70 or 72 scholars

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