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# בְּתוּלִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1331

**virginity** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

**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.

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: virginiti(es) (6); \[are\] the virginiti(es) (1); her virginiti(es) (1).

## In the verses

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

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.

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

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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1331.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1331/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).