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.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The tradition of biblical translation being coloured by evangelical interests goes back to the time of the Septuagint.’
  • ‘Early Christians, including Paul, used Greek translations, the Septuagint, rather than Hebrew texts of Old Testament books.’
  • ‘The language of the Septuagint influenced many of the writers of the New Testament.’
  • ‘The Septuagint, the Old Testament translation into Greek, was made by Jewish scholars in Alexandria.’