παρθένος
virgin
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3933 appears in the Book of Matthew — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 1:23 παρθένος n nom sg fem "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" Which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
- Matthew 25:1 παρθένοις n dat pl fem "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- Matthew 25:7 παρθένοι n nom pl fem Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
- Matthew 25:11 παρθένοι n nom pl fem Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“virgin” is the headline sense of the Greek noun παρθενος (parthénos). Catalogued under 4 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The Greek New Testament uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Corinthians. First canonically at Matthew 1:23, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3933 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 6 verses 43%
- Matthew 4 verses 29%
- Luke 1 verse 7%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 50%
- Gospels 5 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 14%
- Johannine 1 verse · 7%
- Revelation 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Virgin 7×, Virgins 6×
- American Standard Version: Virgin 8×, Virgins 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Virgin 7×, Virgins 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Virgin 9×, Virgins 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3933 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3933 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3933 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3933 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a marriageable maiden
- a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man
- one's marriageable daughter
- a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity
Word origin
Origin: of unknown origin
Of unknown origin; a maiden ; by implication an unmarried daughter : - virgin.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G3933 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρθένον parthénon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:27 | 5 |
| παρθένοι parthénoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 25:7 | 4 |
| παρθένος parthénos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 1:23 | 3 |
| παρθένοις parthénois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 25:1 | 1 |
| παρθένου parthénou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:27 | 1 |
| παρθένων parthénōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 7:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3933, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παρθενος appears 53 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 51 verses in 18 books.
- 53
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 51
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:14 παρθένος
- Exodus 22:15 παρθένος
- Leviticus 21:3 παρθένος
- Deuteronomy 22:19 παρθένος
- Judges 19:24 παρθένος
- 2 Samuel 13:2 παρθένος
- 1 Kings 1:2 παρθένος
- 2 Kings 19:21 παρθένος
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 παρθένος
- Esther 2:17 παρθένος
- Job 31:1 παρθένος
- Psalms 44:15 παρθένος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3933) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 51. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:14 παρθένος Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink.' She will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' Let the same be she who you have appointed for your servant Isaac. Thereby will I know that you have shown kindness to my master."
- Genesis 24:16 παρθένος The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Genesis 24:43 παρθένος Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.
- Genesis 24:55 παρθένος Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
- Genesis 34:3 παρθένος His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
- Exodus 22:15 παρθένος If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
- Exodus 22:16 παρθένος "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
- Leviticus 21:3 παρθένος and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
- Leviticus 21:13 παρθένος "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
- Leviticus 21:14 παρθένος A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 παρθένος and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 22:23 παρθένος If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
- Deuteronomy 22:28 παρθένος If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
- Deuteronomy 32:25 παρθένος Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
- Judges 19:24 παρθένος Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble you them, and do with them what seems good to you: but to this man don't do any such folly.
- Judges 21:11 παρθένος This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.
- Judges 21:12 παρθένος They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
- 2 Samuel 13:2 παρθένος Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
- 2 Samuel 13:18 παρθένος She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
- 1 Kings 1:2 παρθένος Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.
- 2 Kings 19:21 παρθένος This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 παρθένος Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
- Esther 2:17 παρθένος The king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
- Job 31:1 παρθένος "I made a covenant with my eyes, How then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
- Psalms 44:15 παρθένος All day long my dishonor is before me, And shame covers my face,
- Psalms 77:63 παρθένος
- Psalms 148:12 παρθένος Both young men and maidens; Old men and children:
- Isaiah 7:14 παρθένος Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Isaiah 23:4 παρθένος Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
- Isaiah 37:22 παρθένος this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- Isaiah 47:1 παρθένος Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
- Isaiah 62:5 παρθένος For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
- Jeremiah 2:32 παρθένος Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
- Jeremiah 18:13 παρθένος Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
- Jeremiah 26:11 παρθένος Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
- Jeremiah 28:22 παρθένος
- Jeremiah 38:4 παρθένος Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
- Jeremiah 38:13 παρθένος So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
- Jeremiah 38:21 παρθένος But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:
- Lamentations 1:4 παρθένος The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 1:15 παρθένος The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
- Lamentations 1:18 παρθένος Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 2:10 παρθένος The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Lamentations 2:13 παρθένος What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
- Lamentations 2:21 παρθένος The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
- Lamentations 5:11 παρθένος They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Ezekiel 9:6 παρθένος kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
- Ezekiel 44:22 παρθένος Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
- Amos 5:2 παρθένος "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; There is no one to raise her up."
- Amos 8:13 παρθένος In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint for thirst.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3933) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
