the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #1331 - בְּתוּלִים
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- virginity
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2045) ltb (בתל BTL) AC: ? CO: Virgin AB: ?: [from: ub- as virgin loins]
df ) lftb (בתול BTWL) - Virginity: [Always used in the masculine plural form] KJV (10): virginity - Strongs: H1331 (בְּתוּלִים)
df1) elftb (בתולה BTWLH) - Virgin: KJV (50): virgin, maid, maiden - Strongs: H1330 (בְּתוּלָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
בְּתוּלִים m. pl.
(1) virginity, Leviticus 21:13, זִהוּא אִשָּׂה בִבְתוּלֶיהָ יִקַּח “and he shall take a wife in her virginity;” Judges 11:37; Ezekiel 23:3, דַּדֵּי בְתוּלֵיהֶן “the teats of their virginity,” verse Ezekiel 23:3.
(2) tokens of virginity (compare בְּרִית No. 4, of the sign of the covenant), i.e. stragulæ inter primæ noctis amplexus hymenis scissi sanguine inquinatæ. Deuteronomy 22:14, seq. Compare Leo Afric. p. 325. Niebuhr’s Description of Arabia, p. 35-39. Arvieux, Itin. vol. iii. p. 257, 260. Michaëlis, Mosaisches Recht, t. ii. § 92.