Virginity
בְּתוּלִיםStrong’s H1331betulim (be-tu-lim)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Betulim is the Hebrew word usually translated “virginiti”, “virginiti of” and “virginiti her”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall take a wife in her virginity.”
Meaning
- Virginity
How it's translated
- virginiti 3
- virginiti of 2
- virginiti her 2
- in virginiti her 1
- virginiti my 1
- virginiti their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
- Judges 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 22:14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
- Deuteronomy 22:15Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
- Deuteronomy 22:17And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
- Deuteronomy 22:20But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
- Judges 11:37And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
- Judges 11:38And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּתוּלִים betulim · virginity
virginity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “virginity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIRGIN'ITY, noun
[Latin virginitas.]
Maidenhood; the state of having had no carnal knowledge of man.
All definitions and other forms of “virginity”
VIR'GIN'S BOWER, noun
A plant of the genus Clematis.
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.