单词 | Septuagint |
释义 | Septuagint/ˈsɛptjʊədʒɪnt /noun A Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), including the Apocrypha, made for Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc and adopted by the early Christian Churches.The three-fold division of the Hebrew Bible is abandoned in the Septuagint....
OriginMid 16th century (originally denoting the translators themselves): from Latin septuaginta 'seventy', because of the tradition that it was produced, under divine inspiration, by seventy-two translators working independently. |
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