— Septuagintal , adj.
/sep"tooh euh jint', -tyooh-, sep"chooh-/ , n.
the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century B.C. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
[ 1555-65; septuaginta seventy ]