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title: בְּתוּלָה — virgin · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּתוּלָה (1330), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 50 times: virgin. BDB 1906: n.f. virgin. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּתוּלָה

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«בְּתוּלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **virgin** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 50 times · **Key:** 1330 · **BDB:** בְּתוּלָה

### Glosses

a.virgin (10); virgins (10); the.virgin (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

virgin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1330/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. virgin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1330/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. virgin (cf. Arabic بَتُولٌ, بَتِيلٌ, Assyrian batultu (also batûlu of young man) 5 R 42:56 v. Jer ZA 1886, 399; NH בְּתוּלָא, ܒܬܽܘܠܴܐ )—Gn 24:16 + 19 times; cstr. בְּתוּלַת Dt 22:19 + 12 times; pl. בְּתוּלוֹת Est 2:2 + 7 times; בְּתֻלוֹת Zc 9:17; בְּתוּלֹת Ex 22:16 + 2 times; בְּתֻלֹת La 5:11; sf. בְּתוּלֹתָיו ψ 78:63 + 3 times;—one living apart in her father’s house as a virgin Gn 24:16 (J); Ex 22:15 (E); Lv 21:3, 14 (P); Dt 22:19; Ju 19:24; 2 S 13:2; Jb 31:1; Is 62:5; Je 2:32; 31:13; Jo 1:8; נערה בתולה a virgin damsel Dt 22:23, 28; Ju 21:12; 1 K 1:2; Est 2:3; בחור ובתולה Dt 32:25 2 Ch 36:17 Je 51:22 Ez 9:6; personification of nations בתולת ישׂראל Je 18:13; 31:4, 21 Am 5:2; ב׳ בת ציון 2 K 19:21 (= Is 37:22; on double st. cstr. v. Ges§ 130.5 Phi St Cstr. 63) La 2:13; ב׳ בת עמי Je 14:17; ב׳ בת יהודה La 1:15; ב׳ בת צידון Is 23:12; ב׳ בת בבל Is 47:1; ב׳ בת מצרים Je 46:11; pl. virgins Ex 22:16 2 S 13:18 Est 2:2, 17, 19 ψ 45:15; 78:63 La 1:4; 2:10; 5:11 Ez 44:22 Am 8:13; בחורים ובתולות ψ 148:12 Is 23:4 Zc 9:17 La 1:18; 2:21.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 50 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּתוּלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1330/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 148:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.148.12/)

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בַּחוּרִ֥ים וְגַם־בְּתוּל֑וֹת זְ֝קֵנִ֗ים עִם־נְעָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* O.young.men and also young.women O.old.\[people\] with youths

*JPS 1917:* Both young men and maidens, old men and children;

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[Lamentations 5:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.11/)

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נָשִׁים֙ בְּצִיּ֣וֹן עִנּ֔וּ בְּתֻלֹ֖ת בְּעָרֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* women in Zion men.have.humiliated virgins in the.cities of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.

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