בְּתוּלָהbᵉthûwlâh
virgin (Genesis 24:16; Deuteronomy 22:19; Esther 2:2; Zechariah 9:17; Exodus 22:16)
Pronunciation: beth-oo-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1330
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 50 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:16 Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.
- Exodus 22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has sex with her, he must pay the customary bride price and marry her.
- Exodus 22:17 But if her father refuses to let him marry her, the man must still pay him an amount equal to the bride price of a virgin.
- Leviticus 21:3 or his virgin sister who depends on him because she has no husband.
- Leviticus 21:14 He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has defiled herself by prostitution. She must be a virgin from his own clan,
- Deuteronomy 22:19 They must also fine him 100 pieces of silver, which he must pay to the woman’s father because he publicly accused a virgin of Israel of shameful conduct. The woman will then remain the man’s wife, and he may never divorce her.
See every passage
- Genesis 24:16
- Exodus 22:16, 22:17
- Leviticus 21:3, 21:14
- Deuteronomy 22:19, 22:23, 22:28, 32:25
- Judges 19:24, 21:12
- 2 Samuel 13:2, 13:18
- 1 Kings 1:2
- 2 Kings 19:21
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
- Esther 2:2, 2:3, 2:17, 2:19
- Job 31:1
- Psalms 45:14, 78:63, 148:12
- Isaiah 23:4, 23:12, 37:22, 47:1, 62:5
- Jeremiah 2:32, 14:17, 18:13, 31:4, 31:13, 31:21, 46:11, 51:22
- Lamentations 1:4, 1:15, 1:18, 2:10, 2:13, 2:21, 5:11
- Ezekiel 9:6, 44:22
- Joel 1:8
- Amos 5:2, 8:13
- Zechariah 9:17
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).