Definition of Hexaplar

1. hexapla [adj] - See also: hexapla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexaplar

hexanol
hexanols
hexanone
hexanones
hexanoyl
hexanoyls
hexaoxane
hexaoxide
hexaoxides
hexapeptide
hexapeptides
hexapetalous
hexaphosphorylated
hexaphyllous
hexapla
hexaplar (current term)
hexaplas
hexaploid
hexaploidies
hexaploidization
hexaploids
hexaploidy
hexapod
hexapodies
hexapodous
hexapods
hexapody
hexapolar
hexapole

Literary usage of Hexaplar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... and are entitled hexaplar. To these main sources of our existing MSS. must be added the recensions of the Septuagint mentioned by Jerome and others, ..."

2. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"... that of Hesychius in Alexandria and Egypt; while the churches lying between these two regions used the hexaplar text copied by Eusebius and ..."

3. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs (1908)
"THE SYRO-hexaplar VERSION. This translation was made by Paul of Telia in 616 and 617 AD from the Septuagint column of Origen's Hexapla. It is in reality, ..."

4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes by George Aaron Barton (1908)
"THE SYRO-hexaplar VERSION. This translation was made by Paul of Telia in 616 and 617 AD from the Septuagint column of Origen's Hexapla. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"Foremost among these fuller authorities is the Syro- hexaplar version made by ... A second hand has added to this MS a number of hexaplar readings from the ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Several books and large portions of this Syro-hexaplar text survive ... The hexaplar text also influenced St. Jerome very strongly in his first two ..."

7. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"A second hand has added to this MS a number of hexaplar readings from the other editions ... When we compare our hexaplar text with these primary sources of ..."

8. Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William Rainey Harper by William Rainey Harper (1908)
"necessary conclusion is, that at least in the book of Ezr.-Neh. codex it is, and from the first was known to be, a hexaplar codex; and that care was taken ..."

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