LXX

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• Compare the LXX use of synesis (Heb: sakal) when David "acts wisely" in his youth (1 Samuel 18:5, 14, 15, 30).

  Academic text (1997)

• Strikingly, Jesus speaks no word of his own, proclaiming instead a lengthy passage from Isaiah 61:1-2 (LXX), and declaring, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."

  Academic text (2005)

• And yet the term is not found in the LXX at all.

  Blog text (9)

• The LXX employs phronesis here rather than sophia.

  Academic text (1997)

• The LXX employs several equivalents with slight variations in nuance.

  Academic text (1997)

• The LXX employs phronesis three times (10:4, 6, 8).

  Academic text (1997)

• While Hebrew and Greek (LXX) Bibles have been consulted, all textual citations are from the New International Version (English) unless otherwise indicated.

  Academic text (1997)

• The API offers Bibles in 53 versions, the New Testament in a further 13, four editions of the Greek NT, 6 of the Hebrew Old Testament, and 2 of the LXX.

  Blog text (13)

• "Barry Setterfield dates Peleg as living 530 years after the Flood, using the Vorlage Text and the Septuagint (LXX)."

  Blog text (1)

• The name Genesis is taken from the Septuagint (LXX), the Greek translation of the Old Testament.

Synonyms

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Septuagint

vsLXX

• Literature

2 9.9

An old Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament used by early Christians

is the shortened abbreviation used for that Greek translation

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Etymology