Virgin
בְּתוּלָהStrong’s H1330betulah (be-tu-lah)
Appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Betulah is the Hebrew word usually translated “virgin”, “virgin of” and “virgins”. It appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament.
“For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.”
Meaning
- Virgin
How it's translated
- a virgin 10
- virgin of 7
- virgins 6
- o virgin of 5
- the virgins 3
- young women 3
- the virgin 2
- virgin 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- Lamentations 7
- Isaiah 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- Esther 4
- Psalms 3
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:16And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Exodus 22:16And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
- Exodus 22:17If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
- Leviticus 21:3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
- Leviticus 21:14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
- Deuteronomy 22:19And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
All 50 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בְּתוּלָה betulah · virgin
virgin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “virgin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIR'GIN, noun
nearly vur'gin. [Latin virgo.]
- A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man.
- A woman not a mother. [Unusual.]
- The sign Virgo. [See Virgo.]
All definitions and other forms of “virgin”
VIR'GIN, adjective
- Pure; untouched; as virgin gold.
- Fresh; new; unused; as virgin soil.
VIR'GIN, verb intransitive
To play the virgin; a cant word.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.