Example sentences for: septuagint

How can you use “septuagint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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).

  • That brings us to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament “said to have been made by 72 Palestinian Jews during the third century B.C. at the command of Ptolemy Philadelphus.

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

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


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