Seventy

Sev′en-ty

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Adj.

[AS. hund

-seofontig

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, and

, and cf.

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.]

Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

Sev′en-ty

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Noun.

;

pl.

Seventies

.

1.

The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

2.

A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.

The Seventy

,

the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See

Septuagint

.

Seventy

SEV'ENTY

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Adj.

[Gr. ten.] Seven times ten.

That he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Dan. 9.

SEV'ENTY

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Noun.

The Septuagint or seventy translators of the Old Testament into the Greek language.

Seventy

See also: seventy

English

Proper noun

Seventy

The translators of the Septuagint
- 1823, Herbert Marsh, Introduction to the New Testament, volume 1, 4 edition, page 224:
  The Seventy have totally miſrepreſented Iſaiah viii.14, 15 […] .
- 1988, Elias J. Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, ISBN 0-674-47490-2, page 114:
  It was impossible to avoid pagan terminology altogether, however, and the Seventy relaxed their vigilance when dealing with poetry.
- 1989, William McKane, Selected Christian Hebraists, ISBN 0-521-35507-9, page 127:
  Jerome could accommodate himself to the ecclesiastical consensus, but he expresses clearly and trenchantly his critical opinion that the Seventy were not inspired […] .

Translations

translators of the Septuagint

French: Septante (fr)

seventy

See also: Seventy

English

**English cardinal numbers**
< 69	70	71 >
Cardinal : seventy Ordinal : seventieth

Numeral

seventy

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

Synonyms

Arabic numerals: 70
Roman numerals: LXX

Translations

cardinal number

Afrikaans: sewentig
Albanian: shtatëdhjetë (sq)
Arabic: سَبْعِينَ ‎(sabʿīna), (only nominative, formal) سَبْعُون ‎(sabʿūn)
Egyptian Arabic: سبعين ‎(sabʿīn)
Aramaic:

Syriac: ^{(please verify)}ܫܒܥܝܢ c ‎(shab‘īn)

Hebrew: ^{(please verify)}שבעין c ‎(shab‘īn)
Armenian: յոթանասուն (hy) ‎(yotʿanasun)
Aromanian: shaptidzãts
Asturian: setenta (ast)
Azeri: yetmiş (az)
Bashkir: етмеш ‎(yetmeš)
Basque: hirurogeita hamar (eu)
Belarusian: се́мдзесят ‎(sjémdzjesjat)
Bengali: সত্তর ‎(sôttôr)
Breton: dek ha tri-ugent
Bulgarian: се́демдесет ‎(sédemdeset)
Burmese: ခုနစ်ဆယ် ‎(hku.nachcai)
Catalan: setanta (ca)
Chechen: кхузткъе итт ‎(quztq̇e itt)
Chichewa: makumi asanu ndiawiri
Chinese:
Mandarin: 七十 (zh) ‎(qīshí)
Chuvash: ҫитмӗл ‎(śitmĕl)
Crimean Tatar: yetmiş
Czech: sedmdesát (cs)
Dalmatian: septuanta, setuonta
Danish: halvfjerds (da)
Dutch: zeventig (nl) f
Esperanto: sepdek
Estonian: seitsekümmend (et)
Fijian: vitu saga vulu
Finnish: seitsemänkymmentä
French: (France, Quebec, Luxembourg) soixante-dix (fr), (Belgium, Congo-Kinshasa, Switzerland, northern France) septante (fr) m
Friulian: setante
Galician: setenta (gl)
Georgian: სამოცდაათი ‎(samocdaati)
German: siebzig (de) f
Greek: εβδομήντα (el) ‎(evdomínta)
Hawaiian: kanahiku
Hebrew: שִׁבְעִים m, f ‎(shiv‘ím)
Hindi: सत्तर (hi) ‎(sattar)
Hungarian: hetven (hu)
Ido: sepadek (io)
Indonesian: tujuh puluh
Interlingua: septanta
Irish: seachtó (ga)
Old Irish: sechtmoga
Italian: settanta (it) m
Japanese: 七十 (ja) ‎(ななじゅう, nanájū, しちじゅう, shichíjū)
Karachay-Balkar: джетмиш ‎(jetmiş)
Kazakh: жетпіс (kk) ‎(jetpis)
Khakas: читон ‎(çiton)
Khmer: ចិតសិប (km) ‎(cət səp)
Komi-Permyak: сизимдас ‎(sizimdas)
Korean: 칠십 (ko) ‎(chilsip) (七十 (ko)), 일흔 (ko) ‎(ilheun)
Kurdish:

Kurmanji: heftê (ku)

Sorani: حه‌فتا (ku)

Kyrgyz: жетимиш (ky) ‎(cetimiş)
Ladin: setanta
Lao: ເຈັດສິບ ‎(chet sip)
Latin: septuaginta
Latvian: septiņdesmit (lv)
Lithuanian: septyniasdešimt (lt)
Luxembourgish: siwwenzeg
Macedonian: седумдесет ‎(sedumdeset)
Malagasy: fitopolo (mg)
Malay: tujuh puluh, pitu puluh
Maltese: sebgħin
Manx: tree feed as jeih
Maori: whitu tekau (mi)
Mongolian: дал (mn) ‎(dal)
Nauruan: aemo
Navajo: tsostsʼidiin
Norwegian: sytti (no)
Novial: setanti
Occitan: setanta (oc)
Ojibwe: niizhwaasimidana
Old Church Slavonic: сєдмь дєсѧтъ ‎(sedmĭ desętŭ)
Old Saxon: antsivuntig
Old Turkic: 𐰘𐱅𐰢𐰾 ‎(yetmiš)
Ottoman Turkish: يتمش ‎(yetmiş)
Persian: هفتاد (fa) ‎(haftâd)
Polish: siedemdziesiąt (pl)
Portuguese: setenta (pt)
Quechua: qanchis chunka
Romanian: șaptezeci (ro)
Romansch: settanta, siatonta, satànta, settaunta
Russian: се́мьдесят (ru) ‎(sémʹdesjat)
Rusyn: сімдеся́ть ‎(simdesjátʹ)
Samoan: fitugafulu
Sanskrit: अशीतितमः ‎(aśītitamaḥ)
Sardinian: setanta
Scottish Gaelic: (old system) trì fichead 's a deich, (new system) seachdad
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: седамдесет

Roman: sedamdeset
Sicilian: sittanta (scn)
Sinhalese: හැත්තෑව ‎(hættǣva)
Slovak: sedemdesiat
Southern Altai: јетен ‎(ceten)
Spanish: setenta (es)
Swahili: sabini (sw)
Swedish: sjuttio (sv)
Tagalog: pitumpu
Tahitian: hitu 'ahuru
Tajik: хафтод ‎(xaftod)
Tatar: җитмеш (tt) ‎(citmeş)
Telugu: డెబ్భై (te) ‎(ḍebbhai)
Thai: เจ็ดสิบ ‎(jèt sìp)
Tongan: fitungofulu
Turkish: yetmiş (tr)
Turkmen: ýetmiş (tk)
Tuvan: чеден ‎(čädän)
Udmurt: сизьымдон ‎(sizʹymdon)
Ukrainian: сі́мдесять ‎(símdesjatʹ)
Unami: nishash txinxke
Urdu: ستر ‎(sattar)
Uzbek: yetmish (uz)
Venetian: setanta
Vietnamese: bay mươi
Volapük: veldeg (vo)
Votic: seitseetšümmentä
Welsh: (vigesimal, traditional) deg ar thrigain, (decimal) saith deg (cy)
West Frisian: santich
Yakut: сэттэ уон ‎(sette uon)
Yiddish: זיבעציק ‎(zibetsik)

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