betulim · virginity

What it means

betulim (בְּתוּלִים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “virginity”.

The state of a woman who has not been with a man; also its evidence.

How to say it

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. Never having been with a man.
2. The proof of virginity.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• Judges×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Leviticus 21:13

  And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

• Deuteronomy 22:14

  and charges her with shameful deeds and brings out against her a bad name, and says, “This woman I took, and I came near to her, and I did not find in her virginity,”

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of virginity of the young woman to the elders of the city at the gate.

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  and look, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, ‘I did not find in your daughter virginity.’ But these are the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.

• Deuteronomy 22:20

  But if this thing is true, and virginity was not found in the young woman,

• Judges 11:37

  And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, so that I may go and go down upon the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.”

• Judges 11:38

  He said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she went, with her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.

• Ezekiel 23:3

  And they prostituted themselves in Egypt; in their youth they prostituted themselves; there their breasts were pressed, and there were squeezed the bosoms of their virginity.

• Ezekiel 23:8

  And her prostitutions from Egypt she did not abandon, for with her they lay in her youth, and they squeezed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their prostitution on her.

And 1 more times.