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hexapla
[ hek-suh-pluh ]
noun
- an edition of a book, especially the Old Testament, containing six versions or texts in parallel columns, especially the edition compiled by Origen.
hexapla
/ ˌhɛksəˈplærɪk; ˈhɛksəplə; ˌhɛksəˈplɛərɪən /
noun
- an edition of the Old Testament compiled by Origen, containing six versions of the text
Derived Forms
- ˈ油, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- a· ··· [hek-s, uh, -, plar, -ik], ···· [hek-s, uh, -, plair, -ee-, uh, n], adjective
- post·a· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of hexapla1
Example Sentences
The "Hexapla" is a treasury of the most condensed criticism.
How he treated the Septuagint, and how the Hexapla and the Tetrapla grew under nimble hands and learned heads, we must for the present defer to tell.
In the library of his friend Pamphilus at Caesarea were found many Codexes that had belonged to him, and the autograph of his Hexapla, which was seen and used by St. Jerome214.
In a well-known colophon affixed to the end of the book of Esther in א by the third corrector, it is stated that from the beginning of the book of Kings to the end of Esther the MS. was compared with a copy “corrected by the hand of the holy martyr Pamphilus,” which itself was written and corrected after the Hexapla of Origen220.
History of English Translations and Translators" prefixed to Bagster's English Hexapla, "Mr. Burgley of Stretford" is mentioned as one, with this note:— "In the Lambeth MS. it is 'Mr. Henry Burleigh.'
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