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Hexapla
Hexapla Hex"a*pla, n. Etym. pl., but syntactically sing. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, contr. ?, sixfold.] A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

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- Hexapla (Koinē Gr****: Ἑξαπλᾶ, lit. 'sixfold'), also called Origenis Hexaplorum, is a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, four of them...
- The English Hexapla is an edition of the New Testament in Gr****, along with what were considered the six most important English language translations...
- Old Testament into Gr****. His translation was included by Origen in his Hexapla and Tetrapla, which compared various versions of the Old Testament side...
- in the old Cairo Geniza in Fustat, Egypt, while excerpts taken from the Hexapla written in the glosses of certain m****cripts of the Septuagint were collected...
- Origen's Hexapla: How It Might Be Done". In Salvesen, Alison (ed.). Origen's Hexapla and Fragments: Papers Presented at the Rich Seminar on the Hexapla, Oxford...
- The Secunda is the second column of Origen's Hexapla, a compilation of the Hebrew Bible and Gr**** versions. It consists of a transliteration of the Hebrew...
- (or Syro-Hexapla) is the Syrian Aramaic (Syriac) translation of the Gr**** of the Septuagint as found in the fifth column of Origen's Hexapla. The translation...
- philosopher Celsus, one of its foremost early critics. Origen produced the Hexapla, the first critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, which contained the original...
- separate section, or excluded altogether. 1 Esdras is found in Origen's Hexapla. The Gr**** Septuagint, the Old Latin bible and related bible versions include...
- to be new Gr**** versions of the Hebrew Bible. Although much of Origen's Hexapla (a six-version critical edition of the Hebrew Bible) is lost, several compilations...