septuagint in English

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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.

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1. The Septuagint Helped to Prepare the Way

2. The Septuagint says they were ambidextrous.

3. The Septuagint had helped to prepare the way.

4. Truly, the Septuagint is a Bible translation that changed the world.

5. The Septuagint figured prominently in spreading the message of Christianity.

6. The apostle Paul often quoted from the “Septuagint

7. Apparently, Stephen quoted from the Septuagint. —Genesis 46:20, 26, 27, footnote.

8. Also, they quoted freely from the Septuagint and employed many of its terms.

9. Septuagint, "As birds and sparrows fly, so a Causeless ( ματαία ) curse shall come upon no one" (comp

10. 1 Chronicles 1:4 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have this line.; 1 Chronicles 1:5 Sons may mean descendants or successors or nations; also in verses 6-9, 17 and 23.; 1 Chronicles 1:6 Many Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate (see also Septuagint and Gen

11. (Daniel 4:16, 23, 25, 32) A variant of the Old Greek (Septuagint) reads “seven years.”

12. Benedicite.This canticle is given in the Septuagint version of Holy Scriptures, and is therein a part [verse 35 to middle of v

13. The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Tanakh / Old Testament and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition

14. Sprinkling (per Aspersionem): the Bible of the early Christians was the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament

15. According to the Septuagint, "Ague" is "the jaundice," which disorders the eyes and produces great depression of spirits

16. Benedicite.This canticle is given in the Septuagint version of Holy Scriptures, and is therein a part [verse 35 to middle of v

17. The KJV Old Testament was translated from the Masoretic Hebrew text, and the Apocrypha was translated from the Greek Septuagint

18. Some Bible commentators claim that Stephen may have based his remark on the Greek Septuagint translation of Genesis 46:27.

19. However, “Moses’” is found in the Alexandrine Manuscript of the Greek Septuagint and in the Latin Vulgate at Judges 18:30.

20. The Septuagint includes a number of books commonly referred to as the Old Testament Apocrypha – for example, Tobit, Wisdom, I and II Maccabees, and Judith

21. The Aristarchian signs themselves (the means by which Origen marked his changes to his Septuagint text) are also a source of contention

22. Chronicles, two books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon (the final book of that canon), called First and Second Chronicles in the Authorized Version, and called First and Second Paralipomenon in the Septuagint Septuagint [Lat.,=70], oldest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandria, c.250 B.C

23. The rest of the old testament was first Compiled in Greek form in the Septuagint between the 3rd-1st century BCE in Egypt

24. Aristarchus was persuaded that such verses, although he Athetized them, really did belong in the base text that we call the “vulgate.” Aristarchus treated the “vulgate” Homer text in much the same way that a neo-Aristarchean editor like Origen treated the Septuagint in his hexapla edition of the Hebrew Bible: the Septuagint was Origen

25. Noun the Apocrypha (functioning as singular or plural) the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon

26. From the Temple, through the Coenaculum's Alleluiatic hymn of thanksgiving, the words passed into the service of the Christian Church , whose liturgical language, like that of the Septuagint and the New Testament, was at first, naturally, Greek

27. Notably, the Septuagint texts are preserved in the three famous uncial manuscripts written on vellum —the Vatican Manuscript No. 1209 and the Sinaitic Manuscript, both of the fourth century C.E., and the Alexandrine Manuscript of the fifth century C.E.

28. The Apocrypha refers to a collection of books, or portions of books, that were not considered part of the Holy Scriptures by the Jews, but were preserved with the biblical books in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament.

29. They called the name of that place Bochim - The word בכים bochim signifies weepings or lamentations; and is translated by the Septuagint Κλαυθυων or Κλαυθυωνες, Bewailings; and it is supposed that the place derived its name from these lamentations of the people

30. “All Greek translations of the Bible made by Jews for Jews in pre-Christian times must have used, as the name of God, the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew characters and not [Kyrios], or abbreviations of it, such as we find in the Christian” copies of the Septuagint.

31. The idea of Begetting, as applied in the natural or in a metaphorical or spiritual sense, is expressed in the Gospels by the common words γεννάω ‘to beget’ (which occurs in the LXX Septuagint as the equivalent of the Heb

32. Quoting from the Septuagint version, he wrote: “Just as Isaiah had said aforetime: ‘Unless Jehovah of armies had left a seed to us, we should have become just like Sodom, and we should have been made just like Gomorrah.’” —Romans 9:29.

33. The Morming Canticle Benedicite omnia opera Domini or Canticum trium puerorum is drawn from the Song in the Fiery Furnace in the book of Daniel 3:57-88 (in the Septuagint, usually omitted in protestant bibles) and is associated with the Office of Lauds as well as with Anglican Morning Prayer..

34. Definitions: The Hebrew word here translated "ark" is used in the Old Testament only of the ark of Noah (Genesis 6:14) and of the ark of Bulrushes (), and always in the secondary meaning, a vessel to float.The Septuagint translates it of Noah's ark by kibotos

35. 22 Here Ex 12 verse 40 in the Septuagint reads: “But the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they [and their fathers, Alexandrine MS] dwelt in the land of Egypt AND IN THE LAND OF CANAAN [was] four hundred and thirty years long.”

36. The word Blessed derives from the Greek term makarios, which means “fortunate,” “happy,” “enlarged,” or “lengthy.” Makarios is used in the Septuagint (a translation of the Old Testament into the Greek language) and the New Testament to define the kind of happiness that comes from receiving favor from God.

37. The Septuagint is ambiguous, Ὅτι αὐτὸ ζῆλος ἀνδρὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑταίρου αὐτοῦ, "That this is a man's envy from his comrade;" Vulgate, Industrias Animadverti patere invidiae proximi, "Lay open to a neighbor's envy." In the first case the thought is that unusual skill and success expose a man to envy

38. The Latin version by Saint Jerome, the Vulgate, says: Dormitavit anima mea prae taedio (literally, “My soul slept from boredom”: Ps.118/119:28). We should note that the Greek word in the Septuagint, which Jerome translates as taedio (tedium, or boredom) is our word, “acedia.” What is the Hebrew word which underlies the Greek?

39. - Then let our Countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.The Septuagint Version here differs considerably from the Massoretic text; it is as follows: "And should our countenance appear more downcast than (διατετραμμένη παρὰ) those other youths

40. In our English Bibles, the Greek word Abyssos [] is transliterated as "Abyss" (RSV "bottomless pit") in every instance except Romans 10:7, where it is translated "the deep."In the Septuagint Abyssos [] translates Tehom almost exclusively, but in rare instances ShuLam ( Isa 44:27), MeshuLam ( Job 41:22), and Racha ( Job 36:16).

41. Or "without spot" {m}, as the Septuagint render the word; without any just charge of inequality, or unrighteousness; such is God's way of providence, though sometimes his methods of providence are Cavilled at by wicked men, and murmured at by his own people: they are at a loss, at times, to reconcile promises and providences together, and to

42. - This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy odes: to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the Basest of men.In this verse the difference between the Septuagint text - we mean the text behind that version - and that of the Massoretes is