name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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General-American:/sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/
General-American:/sɛpˈtju.ə.d͡ʒənt/
General-American:/ˈsɛp.ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
General-American:/ˈsɛp.t͡ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
General-American:/ˈsɛp.tə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
Received-Pronunciation:/ˈsɛp.tjʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/
Received-Pronunciation:/ˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/
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General-American:/sɛpˈtuəd͡ʒənt/
General-American:/sɛpˈtjuəd͡ʒənt/
General-American:/ˈsɛpʃəwəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
General-American:/ˈsɛpt͡ʃəwəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
General-American:/ˈsɛptəwəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
Received-Pronunciation:/ˈsɛptjʊəd͡ʒɪnt/
Received-Pronunciation:/ˈsɛptʃʊəd͡ʒɪnt/
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name
Meaning 1
The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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name
Meaning 2
An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
Examples
2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers (Peeters Leuven), page 503, Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this specific domain of research.
2009, Jan Joosten, The Prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3): Sources and Origin, Johann Cook (editor), Septuagint and Reception, BRILL, page 5, The Septuagint originated, for the most part, as a translation of a source text. As such it represents a link—and a very important one—in the reception history of the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures. But the Septuagint very soon turned into a literary and religious reference in its own right. [...] The Septuagint itself became the starting point for a new reception history.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 3
A group of 70 people or a collection of 70 things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Old Testament
History
Etymology
From Late Latin Septuaginta, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as septuaginta translatio (“translation by the seventy”) and septuaginta interpretes (“the 70 interpreters”), calques of Koine Greek names such as οἱ ἐβδομήκοντα ἑρμηνευταί (hoi ebdomḗkonta hermēneutaí, “the 70 interpreters”) and οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the LXX”), deriving from the popular (but probably mistaken) belief that its translation of the Torah had been produced in 72 days by a team of 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem (6 from each tribe) summoned to Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II.
From Latin septuaginta (“seven tens, 70”), chiefly under the influence of the Septuagint and the story of its team of translators, q.v.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
اَلتَّرْجَمَة اَلسَّبْعِينِيَة
(at-tarjama s-sabʕīniyya)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Armenian:
Յոթանասնից թարգմանություն
(Yotʻanasnicʻ tʻargmanutʻyun)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Old Armenian:
Եօթանասնից թարգմանութիւն
(Eōtʻanasnicʻ tʻargmanutʻiwn)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Catalan:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Chinese Mandarin:
七十士譯本 /七十士译本
(Qīshíshì Yìběn)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Czech:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Danish:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Dutch:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Dutch:
Septuagint
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Esperanto:
Septuaginto
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Estonian:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Finnish:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
French:
Septante
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
German:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Greek:
Μετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα
(Metáfrasi ton Evdomíkonta)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Greek:
Εβδομήκοντα
(Evdomíkonta)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Hebrew:
תרגום השבעים
(targúm hashiv'ím)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Indonesian:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Italian:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Japanese:
七十人訳聖書
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Korean:
칠십인역 성경
(Chilsibinyeok seonggyeong)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Latin:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Norwegian:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Polish:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Portuguese:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Romanian:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Russian:
Септуаги́нта
(Septuagínta)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Spanish:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Swedish:
Septuaginta
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
Ukrainian:
Септуаґі́нта
(Septuagínta)
— an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek
