בְּתוּלָה
virgin
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
2 verses where H1330 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Psalms. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
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.
בתולה — transliterated bᵉthûwlâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “virgin.” Debuting at Genesis 24:16, it then recurs through the corpus. With 50 verses in 19 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Sharing its root, it stands alongside בתולים. See the sense tree, 50-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1330 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 50
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 50 distinct verses.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #739
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 739 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 50 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 8 verses 16%
- Lamentations 7 verses 14%
- Isaiah 5 verses 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 50 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 25 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 32%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 18%
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 15×, Virgins 12×, Maid 3×
- American Standard Version: Virgin 17×, Virgins 17×, Concerning him 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Virgin 25×, Maidens 7×, Young women 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Virgin 20×, Virgins 10×, Young women 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1330 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1330 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 H1330 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H1330 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- virgin
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: pass. participle of an unused root meaning to separate
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בְּתוּלָה
- [retired, untouched,]
- 1. virgin. — Pl. בְּתוּלוֹת. Tosef. Shebi. III, 14 sq. שלש ב׳ הן b’thulah is used in three ways, בְּתוּלַת אדם וכ׳ of a human being (virgin), of soil (unbroken), and of sycamores (untrimmed); Nidd. 8ᵇ; Y. ib. I, 49ᵃ. Yeb. 61ᵇ אין ב׳ אלא נערה under b’thulah (in a legal sense) a girl between twelve and twelve and a half years is meant, v. בַּגְרוּת. Ohol. XVI, 4 עד שמגיע … לב׳ until he reaches a rock or unbroken ground. Sabb. 90ᵃ בתולת הוורד a closed rose (Var. quot. in Ar., a. Ms. O. פְּתִילַת). Y. Sot. III, 19ᵃ ב׳ ציימנית an ascetic maid (retired from social pleasures); Sot. 22ᵃ (צליינית) ב׳ ציילנית a prayerful (bigoted) maid; a. fr.
- 2. (only in pl.) the two posts supporting the beam in the wine-press (Lat. gemelli, sorores). B. Bath. IV, 5 (67ᵇ), expl. כלונסות.
- 3. Virgo, sign of the Zodiac. Yalk. Ex. 418. Ib. I Kings 185. Pesik. R. s. 20.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 35 distinct written forms H1330 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1330, 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 verse parallels
This word appears in 47 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 50 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 24:16
- Exodus 22:16
- Leviticus 21:3
- Deuteronomy 22:19
- Judges 19:24
- 2 Samuel 13:2
- 1 Kings 1:2
- 2 Kings 19:21
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
- Esther 2:2
- Job 31:1
- Psalms 148:12
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
