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‖ tetrapla|ˈtɛtrəplə|
Also 7–8 anglicized tetraples.
[a. Gr. τετραπλᾶ, neut. pl. of τετραπλοῦς fourfold, f. τετρα- tetra- + -πλοος -fold. Cf. F. tétraples (Littré).]
A text consisting of four parallel versions, esp. that of the Old Testament made by Origen. Cf. hexapla, octapla.
1684N. S. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible xviii. 178 He maintains that the Tetraples and Hexaples of Origen..were call'd Tetraples, because they contain'd a fourfold Version; Hexaples because they comprehended six Versions. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 242 Origen's Tetraples, Hexaples, and Octaples. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xxiv. (1845) 516 Origen appears at first to have published the three versions of Aquila, Theodotion, and Symmachus, together with the Septuagint: they were arranged in four parallel columns, and the work was called Tetrapla. |