Septuagint
/ˈseptjʊədʒɪnt/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.七十子希腊文本圣经(公元前3世纪至公元前2世纪为埃及讲希腊语的犹太人编写的希腊文本希伯来《圣经·旧约》, 包含次经, 为早期的基督教会采用)。
词源
mid 16th cent. (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.