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Definition: HEXAPLA |
HEXAPLASingular1. A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century. |
Etymology: Hexapla \Hex"a*pla\, noun. Etym. plural, but syntactically sing. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from, contr., sixfold.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Hexapla A book containing the text of the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, with four translations, viz. the Septuagint, with those of Aquila, Theodotion, and Symmachus. The whole is printed in six columns on the page. This was the work of Origen, who also added marginal notes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HEXAPLA |
| Etymologies containing "HEXAPLA": Octapla. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hexapla | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HEXAPLA": hexaplar, hexaplas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "HEXAPLA" (pronounced 'Hex"a*pla'): Anopla, Enopla, Octapla, Tetrapla. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-l-p-x" | |
-2 letters: aleph, alpha, hapax, palea. | |
-3 letters: alae, apex, axal, axel, axle, epha, hale, heal, heap, help, leap, pale, peal, plea. | |
-4 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, ale, alp, ape, axe, hae, hap, hep, hex, lap, lax, lea, lex, pah, pal, pax, pea, peh. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ah, al, ax, eh, el, ex, ha, he, la, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-l-p-x" | |
+1 letter: hexaplar, hexaplas. | |
+2 letters: phalanxes. | |
+4 letters: anaphylaxes. | |
+5 letters: morphallaxes, trophallaxes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 58 41 50 4C 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -..- .- .--. .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01011000 01000001 01010000 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E X A P L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0058 0041 0050 004C 0041 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42395835504635 |
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