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בְּתוּלָה

betula · virgin

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1330 · appears 50 times in the Bible

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What it means

betula (בְּתוּלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “virgin”.

Young woman not yet married; virgin.

How to say it

be·tu·la

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A girl who has not been with a man.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Virgin: a young woman who has not been with a man and is not yet married. The prophets use it as an image of a city or a people: ‘the virgin of Israel’, ‘the virgin, daughter of Zion’.

Historical and cultural background

Whoever seduced a virgin who was not betrothed had to pay the bride-price and take her as his wife (Exodus 22:16). The high priest could marry only “a virgin of his own people” (Leviticus 21:14).

How we translate it

“Virgin” 33 times and “virgins” 16. In Psalm 148:12, in a list of ages, “maidens”, next to “young men”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • virgin ×33
  • virgins ×16
  • maidens ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 24:16

    The girl was very beautiful in appearance, a virgin, and no man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

  • Exodus 22:16

    When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to make her his wife.

  • Exodus 22:17

    If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh out silver according to the bride-price of virgins.

  • Leviticus 21:3

    and for his virgin sister, who is near to him, who has not belonged to a husband; for her he may make himself unclean.

  • Leviticus 21:14

    A widow, or a divorced woman, or a profaned prostitute, these he shall not take; but a virgin of his own people he shall take as wife,

  • Deuteronomy 22:19

    and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought out a bad name against a virgin of Israel, and she shall be his wife; he may not send her away all his days.

  • Deuteronomy 22:23

    If there is a young woman, a virgin, engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • Deuteronomy 22:28

    If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

  • Deuteronomy 32:25

    Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.

  • Judges 19:24

    Look, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine: let me bring out them and humiliate them and do to them what is good in your eyes; but to this man do not do the deed of this infamy.”

  • Judges 21:12

    And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who had not known a man by lying with a male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • 2 Samuel 13:2

    Amnon was so distressed that he made himself ill because of Tamar his sister, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her.

  • 2 Samuel 13:18

    She was wearing a long robe, for so the king’s virgin daughters used to dress, in robes. His attendant brought her outside and bolted the door after her.

  • 1 Kings 1:2

    And his servants said to him, “Let them seek for my lord the king a young woman, a virgin, and let her stand before the king and be his caretaker; and let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king may get warm.”

  • 2 Kings 19:21

    This is the word that YHWH has spoken against him: “She despises you, she mocks you, the virgin, daughter of Zion; behind you she shakes her head, the daughter of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17

    He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or the very old; he gave them all into his hand.

  • Esther 2:2

    And the king’s young men who served him said, “Let them seek for the king young women, virgins, of good appearance;

  • Esther 2:3

    and let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every young woman, a virgin of good appearance, to Susa, the fortress, to the house of the women, under the hand of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given;

  • Esther 2:17

    And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won favor and loyal love before him more than all the virgins; and he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

  • Esther 2:19

    And when virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting in the gate of the king.

  • Job 31:1

    A covenant I made with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

  • Psalms 45:14

    In embroidered garments she is led to the king; virgins behind her, her companions, are brought to you.

  • Psalms 78:63

    His young men the fire devoured, and his virgins were not celebrated.

  • Psalms 148:12

    young men and also maidens, old men with youths.

  • Isaiah 23:4

    Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: “I have not been in labor nor given birth, nor have I raised young men nor brought up virgins.”

  • Isaiah 23:12

    And he said, “You will not again exult, oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon! Arise, cross over to Kittim; even there there will be no rest for you.”

  • Isaiah 37:22

    this is the word that YHWH has spoken against him: “She despises you, she mocks you, the virgin, daughter of Zion; behind you she shakes her head, the daughter of Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 47:1

    “Go down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans; for they will not again call you tender and delicate.

  • Isaiah 62:5

    For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as the rejoicing of a bridegroom over a bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you.

  • Jeremiah 2:32

    Does a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • Jeremiah 14:17

    And you will say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for with a great breaking has been broken the virgin daughter of my people, a wound incurable, very grievous.

  • Jeremiah 18:13

    Therefore thus says YHWH: Ask, now, among the nations: Who has heard the like of these? A very horrible thing has done the virgin of Israel.

  • Jeremiah 31:4

    Again I will build you, and you will be built, virgin of Israel; again you will adorn yourself with your tambourines, and go out in the dance of those who make merry.

  • Jeremiah 31:13

    Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and I will comfort them and make them rejoice out of their sorrow.

  • Jeremiah 31:21

    Set up for yourself road markers; put up for yourself guideposts; set your heart on the highway, the way by which you went. Return, virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.

  • Jeremiah 46:11

    Go up to Gilead and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied remedies; there is no healing for you.

  • Jeremiah 51:22

    and I will shatter with you man and woman; and I will shatter with you old man and boy; and I will shatter with you young man and virgin;

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The roads of Zion mourn, because no one comes to the appointed feast; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins are grieved, and as for her, it is bitter for her.

  • Lamentations 1:15

    Adonai has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst; he has called against me an appointed feast to crush my young men; Adonai has trodden as a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

  • Lamentations 1:18

    “Righteous is he, YHWH, for against his mouth I have rebelled; hear, please, all the peoples, and see my pain; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

And 10 more times.