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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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