Crossword-Solution: TETRAPLA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tetrapla | sing. | A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns. |
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| book containing versions of the same text in four languages | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TETRAPLA (3)
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.
The form in which he first issued the result of his labours was that of the _Tetrapla_, which presented in four columns the texts of the LXX., Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion.
The work, with the omission of the Hebrew column, and that representing the Hebrew in Greek letters, was termed Tetrapla; and with regard to it, it is uncertain whether it is to be considered a preliminary work on the part of Origen, undertaken by way of preparation for the larger, or merely as an excerpt from the latter.