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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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

The Septuagint (derived from the Latin word for “seventy”) refers to the (Koine) Greek translation of Scripture that has become the basis for most non-Jewish translations of the Bible.

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 …

The term “Septuagint” refers to the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, completed by Jewish scholars centuries before Christ. Its name, meaning “seventy,” recalls the tradition …

This is the main index for the Septuagint, the oldest Greek version of the Jewish Bible. To view this section properly, you need to have a Unicode font installed which has full polytonic Greek …