As you get further into word studies beyond this book, you will often see writers paying special attention to how a word is used in the Septuagint, often abbreviated LXX. This is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that was probably started about 250 B.C. and finished somewhere around the time of Christ. There are certain words that are important in the OT, especially theological words. When the Septuagint was translated, the translators chose a Greek word for each of these
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