||Oc"ta*pla (?), n.; etymol.
pl., but syntactically sing.
[NL., fr.Gr. ? (for ? eight) + -pla, as in E.
hexapla; cf.Gr. ? eightfold.] A portion of the Old
Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew
text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel
columns.