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title: בְּתוּלִים — virginity · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּתוּלִים (1331), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: virginity. BDB 1906: n.f. virginity. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּתוּלִים

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«בְּתוּלִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **virginity** — 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:** 10 times · **Key:** 1331 · **BDB:** בְּתוּלִים

### Glosses

virginiti(es) (6); \[are\].the.virginiti(es) (1); her.virginiti(es) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

virginity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1331/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. virginity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1331/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. virginity, pl. abs. intens. Dt 22:14, 17, 20; cstr. בְּתוּלֵי Dt 22:15, 17, all concrete, tokens of virginity; abstr., sf. בְּתוּלַי Ju 11:37; בְּתוּלֶיהָ Lv 21:13 Ju 11:38 Ez 23:8; בְּתוּלֵיהֶן Ez 23:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּתוּלִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1331/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 21:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.13/)

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וְה֕וּא אִשָּׁ֥ה בִבְתוּלֶ֖יהָ יִקָּֽח׃

*Word for word:* and he a.woman in virginiti(es) her he.will.take

*JPS 1917:* And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

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[Deuteronomy 22:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.20/)

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וְאִם־אֱמֶ֣ת הָיָ֔ה הַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לֹא־נִמְצְא֥וּ בְתוּלִ֖ים לַֽנַּעֲרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and if truth it.was the word (the) this not they.were.found virginiti(es) for the.young woman

*JPS 1917:* But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;

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