Footnote 4 – I: The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible

The Hexapla was a six or more columned work in which the first column contained the Hebrew text of the Bible; the second column, a transliteration of the Hebrew text into Greek script; the third, the recension of Aquila; the fourth, the recension of Symmachus; the fifth, Origen’s revised text of the Septuagint; and the sixth column, the recension of Theodotion.