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Webster 1913 Edition


Seventy

Sev′en-ty

,
Adj.
[AS. hund
-seofontig
. See
Seven
, and
Ten
, and cf.
Seventeen
,
Sixty
.]
Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

Sev′en-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Seventies
.
1.
The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
2.
A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
The Seventy
,
the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See
Septuagint
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Seventy

SEV'ENTY

,
Adj.
[Gr. ten.] Seven times ten.
That he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Dan. 9.

SEV'ENTY

,
Noun.
The Septuagint or seventy translators of the Old Testament into the Greek language.

Definition 2024


Seventy

Seventy

See also: seventy

English

Proper noun

Seventy

  1. The translators of the Septuagint
    • 1823, Herbert Marsh, Introduction to the New Testament, volume 1, 4 edition, page 224:
      The Seventy have totally miſrepreſented Iſaiah viii.14, 15 [] .
    • 1988, Elias J. Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, ISBN 0-674-47490-2, page 114:
      It was impossible to avoid pagan terminology altogether, however, and the Seventy relaxed their vigilance when dealing with poetry.
    • 1989, William McKane, Selected Christian Hebraists, ISBN 0-521-35507-9, page 127:
      Jerome could accommodate himself to the ecclesiastical consensus, but he expresses clearly and trenchantly his critical opinion that the Seventy were not inspired [] .

Translations

seventy

seventy

See also: Seventy

English

English cardinal numbers
 <  69 70 71  > 
    Cardinal : seventy
    Ordinal : seventieth

Numeral

seventy

  1. The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

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