The Eastern Orthodox Church prefers to use the Septuagint as the basis for translating the Old Testament into other languages, and uses the untranslated Septuagint where Greek is the liturgical …

The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the Greek Old Testament. This …

Nov 28, 2025 · Septuagint, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. The Septuagint was presumably made for the Jewish community in Egypt when Greek was …

Oct 14, 2024 · The Septuagint is a Greek version of the Hebrew Old Testament and the first known translation of the Bible outside of its original language. It was completed by Hellenistic (Greek …

The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and used by the early Church. The Septuagint is also called the translation of the seventy because tradition states that the …

Original Greek text of the Septuagint Old Testament in Greek and English side by side

Dec 18, 2024 · The Septuagint, often abbreviated as LXX, is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that holds a pivotal place in both biblical studies and the history of religious texts.

Jan 1, 2021 · The Septuagint translation made the Hebrew scriptures available both to the Jews who no longer spoke their ancestral language and to the entire Greek-speaking world.

Aug 11, 2025 · The Septuagint is the ancient, pre-Christian Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, originating with the Pentateuch in Alexandria during the third century B.C.E. and expanding over the …

The Septuagint, often abbreviated as LXX, is the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, traditionally said to have been translated by seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars in the 3rd …