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countable and uncountable, plural Septuagints
(now rare) The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. quotations examples
Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this specific domain of research.
2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers (Peeters Leuven), page 503
The Septuagint originated, for the most part, as a translation of a source text. As such it represents a link—and a very important one—in the reception history of the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures. But the Septuagint very soon turned into a literary and religious reference in its own right. […] The Septuagint itself became the starting point for a new reception history.
2009, Jan Joosten, The Prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3): Sources and Origin, Johann Cook (editor), Septuagint and Reception, BRILL, page 5
Other important works appeared that continued the discussion about the position of the Septuagint within postclassical Greek.
2022, William A. Ross, Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography, SBL Press, page 42