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LXX

LXX is the abbreviation of Septuagint.

Meaning of Septuagint

Proper noun

Septuagint (countable and uncountable, plural Septuagints)

  1. (archaic) The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
    Synonyms:
    LXX
  2. An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
    • Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this specific domain of research.2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers...

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Origin of LXX

From Medieval Latin LXX, a calque of Koine Greek οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the 70”), used as an abbreviated title for the Septuagint, q.v.

Questions about LXX

What is LXX the abbreviation of?
LXX is the abbreviation of Septuagint.

Words near LXX in the dictionary

  1. Lwówek Śląski
  2. lx
  3. lxd
  4. lxds
  5. LXs
  6. LXX
  7. ly
  8. ly-
  9. Ly-α
  10. lyable
  11. Lyakhavichy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LXX (page history and authors); Septuagint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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