Example sentences for: septuagint

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  • We suggest that the Septuagint sees the maid as Jerusalem, the virgin spouse of the Lord.

  • .” So we see that the Greek word “chiefly” chosen by the Septuagint scholars to mean parthenos is the word bethulah , which Mr. Orbaum stresses is “the Hebrew word for virgin .” But the Jewish scholars of the Septuagint also chose the word parthenos to translate `almah in Isaiah 7:14, where one might have expected a less specific word.

  • we return to Isa 7:14 and especially the Septuagint rendition of `alma.

  • Gesenius-Robinson, by the way, translates bethulah as “a virgin pure and unspotted,” “a virgin just married,” and “a young spouse” (see Joel 1:8, where bethulah is translated by the Septuagint as nymphe, “a betrothed woman, a bride,” “a recently married woman, young wife”-- Thayer).

  • , 1968) The Septuagint translates `almah in Isaiah 7:14 as parthenos.


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