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Septuagint|ˈsɛptjʊədʒɪnt|
[ad. L. septuāgintā seventy, f. weakened form of septem seven.]
†1. The ‘seventy translators’ of the Old Testament into Greek (see 2); = L. septuaginta (interpretes), Gr. οἱ ο′. Obs.[1563Homilies II. Parell of Idol. i. E e j b, Accordynge as the Septuaginta haue in theyr translation in Greke εἴδωλα. 1584in D. Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 44 Will you followe the Septuaginta in their whole translation?] 1589Cooper Admon. 50 The translation..was..according to the Septuagint. 1622T. Ailesbury Serm. 2nd June 11 Which latter clause though it answer not the Originall; yet the Septuagint so translate it. a1656Hales Golden Rem. (1673) 84 The Septuagint, to make the sense more plain, do add another clause. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. vii. 251 The Septuagint, who render this word Eden.
†b. pl. in the same sense. Obs.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist., Euseb. v. viii. 84 The translation of the olde testament by the septuagintes. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 217 The Septuagints were no Grammarians, saith that bold bayard, Stenchius. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 36 Whether they..had studied upon the matter apart in their several cels, as the tale goes of the secluded Septuagints. 1656Blount Glossogr.
2. The Greek version of the Old Testament, which derives its name from the story that it was made by seventy-two Palestinian Jews at the request of Ptolemy Philadelphus (284–247 b.c.) and completed by them, in seclusion on the island of Pharos, in seventy-two days. (Denoted by LXX.)
The authority for the old story is the Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates, long known to be spurious, which purports to give contemporary evidence of the undertaking. The translation is now held to have been made by Egyptian Jews, independent of each other and living in different times.
1633J. Done (title) The Auncient History of the Septuagint. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. i. 278 As for the Septuagint, it is the first and most ancient Translation recorded. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. lxvi, The Greek Version, commonly called the Septuagint, or of the Seventy Interpreters. 1854Gentl. Mag. Apr. 377/1 The severe condemnation which we have been compelled to pass on the Septuagints of the Christian Knowledge Society and the University of Oxford. 1887Bible (R.V.) Pref., The Ancient Versions, the oldest of which, namely the Greek or Septuagint, was made, at least in part, some two centuries before the Christian era.
†3. pl. The ‘seventy elders’ of Israel. (Exod. xxiv. 1.) Obs.
1564Rastell Confut. Jewel's Serm. 137 He [sc. the pope] continueth in his supremacie, as a Moyses aboue the septuagintes.
4. A group of seventy.
1864De Morgan in Athenæum 2 July 21 Not to mention the Iscariot which Leverrier and Adams calculated into existence, there is more than a septuagint of new planetoids. 1887Sir W. Harcourt in Times 29 Sept. 5/3 The Septuagint [of Liberal Unionists] still meets, I believe, at Devonshire House.
5. attrib. of sense 2.
1658Phillips s.v., The Septuagint translation of the Bible. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. iii. 24 If you follow the Septuagint Chronology. 1708Kersey s.v., The Septuagint or Septuagint-Bible. 1769H. Owen (title) An Enquiry into the present state of the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament. 1850Donaldson New Cratylus (ed. 2) §100. 151 The Septuagint translators. |