Seventy

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

We read of our Lord's appointing seventy persons of a rank inferior, it should seem, to the apostles, and sending them out by two and two, before his face, with authority to teach and to preach in the cities. (Luke 10:1, etc,) Some have thought that this was in honour of the seventy called the Septuagint, who were the first that translated the original Hebrew into Greek, in the time of Eleazin the High Priest, about 240 years before the manifestation of Christ in the flesh. But this is wholly conjectural. It is true that the church of God, by the Lord's appointment, is highly indebted to their ministry on this occasion, It is said to have been undertaken at the request of Ptolomeus Philodelphus, then King of Egypt. How truly blessed is it to minister in the Lord's service, in any and in every employment; yea, how truly honourable! A great and powerful King declared that he would rather be a doorkeeper in the house, of God, than to dwell in the richest tents of wickedness. (Psalms 84:10) And to be a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water, for the Lord's sanctuary, when appointed thereto by the great Master of the household is more honourable than the seats of the earth.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἑβδομήκοντα (Strong'S #1440 — Noun — hebdomekonta — heb-dom-ay'-kon-tah )

occurs in Luke 10:1,17; in Acts 7:14 it precedes pente, "five," lit., "seventy-five," rendered "threescore and fifteen;" for the details see Fifteen , Note (1); in Acts 23:23 it is translated "threescore and ten;" in Acts 27:37 it precedes hex, "six," lit., "seventy-six," rendered "threescore and sixteen."

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.

(2): (n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

(3): (a.) Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

King James Dictionary

SEV'ENTY, a. Gr. ten. Seven times ten.

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

Daniel 9 .

SEV'ENTY, n. The Septuagint or seventy translators of the Old Testament into the Greek language.

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

About the year B. C. 277, the Old Testament was translated into Greek, by the united labours of about seventy learned Jews, and that translation has been since known by the version of the LXX.

See SEPTUAGINT.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SEVENTY . See Number, § 7 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

See Numbers.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(שַׁבְעַי ם, shibim), as being the multiple of the full number seven and the perfect number ten, shares in the sacredness or conventionality of the former in Scripture. (See Seven). They are sometimes put in contrast in the complete phrase "seventy times seven" (Genesis 4:24; Matthew 18:21). Some of the most remarkable combinations of this number are specified below.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sev ´' n - ti ( שׁבעים , shibh‛ı̄m  ; ἑβδομή κοντα , hebdomḗkonta ). See Number .