3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Septuagint  \Sep"tu*a*gint\,  n.  [From  L.  septuaginta  seventy.] 
  A  Greek  version  of  the  Old  Testament;  --  so  called  because  it 
  was  believed  to  be  the  work  of  seventy  (or  rather  of 
  seventy-two)  translators. 
 
  Note:  The  causes  which  produced  it  [the  Septuagint],  the 
  number  and  names  of  the  translators,  the  times  at  which 
  different  portions  were  translated,  are  all  uncertain. 
  The  only  point  in  which  all  agree  is  that  Alexandria 
  was  the  birthplace  of  the  version.  On  one  other  point 
  there  is  a  near  agreement,  namely,  as  to  time,  that  the 
  version  was  made  or  at  least  commenced,  in  the  time  of 
  the  early  Ptolemies  in  the  first  half  of  the  third 
  century  b.c.  --Dr.  W.  Smith  (Bib.  Dict.) 
 
  {Septuagint  chronology},  the  chronology  founded  upon  the 
  dates  of  the  Septuagint,  which  makes  1500  years  more  from 
  the  creation  to  Abraham  than  the  Hebrew  Bible. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Septuagint 
  n  :  the  pre-Christian  Greek  version  of  the  Old  Testament  [syn:  {Septuagint}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Septuagint 
  See  {VERSIONS}. 
 

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