A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Hellenists

by Hannah Adams

*HELLENISTS, Jews who speak the Greek language. Acts vi. 1.^[1] To such we are indebted for the Greek version of the old testament, commonly called the Septuagint, or the version of the seventy. Others think they were Grecian proselytes to the Jewish religion, Grecian Jews.^[2]

Original footnotes

1. Doddridge in loc.
2. Wolfius in loc. Parkhurst's Greek Lex. in $\mathrm {E} \lambda \lambda \eta \nu \iota \sigma \tau \eta \sigma$