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Webster 1913 Edition

Octapla

‖

Oc′ta-pla

,

p

rop.

Noun.

; etymol.

pl.

, but syntactically

s

ing.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ὀκτα-

(for

ὀκτώ

eight) +

-pla

, as in E.

hexapla

; cf. Gr. [GREEK] eightfold.]

A portion of the Old Testament prepared by

Origen

in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.