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hexapla

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Hexapla (hĕk`səplə) [Gr.,=sixfold], polyglot edition of the Hebrew Bible prepared by Origen Origen (ôr`ĭjĭn), 185?–254?, Christian philosopher and scholar.
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 (c.185–c.255). It was mainly in six columns—a Hebrew text (probably the Masoretic), a Greek transliteration of it, and four Greek versions (those of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, and a revised version of the Septuagint). For certain sections of the Hebrew text, three further Greek versions were added. Some fragments survive. See Polyglot Bible Polyglot Bible (pŏl`ēglŏt), Bible in which different texts, often in different languages, are laid out in parallel columns.
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hexapla
an edition of the Old Testament compiled by Origen, containing six versions of the text


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Though Jerome had the original manuscript, his chief work of Biblical scholarship, the Hexapla ("SixFold")--in which the Old Testament in Hebrew (which Origen learned for this purpose), the (Greek) Septuagint, and four other versions were arranged in parallel columns with critical editorial signs, 6000 pages long--is almost wholly lost.
 
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