Seventy

(sĕv'n-tĭ), a. [A-S. seofontig, hund seofontig.] Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine. He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2.

n. 1. The sum of seven times ten. 2. A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. The Seventy, the seventy, or rather seventy-two, translators of the Old Testament into the Greek language, from whom this translation is called the Septuagint.