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📖 Greek Old Testament 7️⃣ The number seventy
LXX

LXX

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A Roman numeral for seventy
  • noun
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  • It is often written as LXX on the title page of ancient texts to signify seventy.

Examples

  • In Roman numerals, LXX comes after LX (60) and before LXXX (80).

  • The Roman numeral LXX represents the number seventy.

  • Also see R. Shift, "Art History and the Nineteenth Century: Realism and Resistance," Art Bulletin, LXX, 1, 1988, 25-48, in which the study of realism is used as a model to demonstrate some divergent approaches within the field of art history.

    Academic text (1993)

Surface Forms

LXX singular

Etymology

The word LXX is a Roman numeral written with letters: L means '50' and each X means '10', so LXX is 50 + 10 + 10, or 'seventy'.