Hexapla
![The inter-relationship between various significant ancient versions and recensions of the Old Testament (some identified by their siglum). LXX here denotes the original septuagint.](/Images/godic/202501/30/Texts_of_the_OT.svg5331.png")
Hexapla (Ancient Greek: Ἑξαπλᾶ, "sixfold") is the term for an edition of the Bible in six versions. It is an immense and complex word-for-word comparison of the Greek Septuagint with the original Hebrew Scriptures, and other Greek translations. The term especially and generally applies to the edition of the Old Testament compiled by the theologian and scholar Origen, sometime before the year 240 CE, which placed side by side: