בְּתוּלִים
virginity
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 7 times (70%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 3 times (30%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1331 appears — 9 distinct verses across 4 books. 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.
Leviticus 1 verse
Deuteronomy 4 verses
- Deuteronomy 22:14 בְּתוּלִֽים n c bp and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
- Deuteronomy 22:15 בְּתוּלֵ֧י n c bp cs then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
- Deuteronomy 22:17 בְּתוּלִ֔ים בְּתוּלֵ֣י n c bp n c bp cs and, behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
- Deuteronomy 22:20 בְתוּלִ֖ים n c bp But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 11:37 בְּתוּלַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
- Judges 11:38 בְּתוּלֶ֖י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs He said, Go. He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 23:3 בְּתוּלֵי/הֶֽן n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fp and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
- Ezekiel 23:8 בְתוּלֶ֑י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
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.
בתולים — transliterated bᵉthûwlîym — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “virginity.” Debuting at Leviticus 21:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 9 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Deuteronomy (44% of all occurrences). See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1331 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 4 verses 44%
- Judges 2 verses 22%
- Ezekiel 2 verses 22%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 56%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 44%
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: Virginity 7×, Maid 2×
- American Standard Version: Virginity 5×, 's virginity 2×, Tokens of virginity 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Virginity 5×, Virgin 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Virginity 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1331 across 10 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 H1331 across 10 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1331 across 10 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1331 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
- virginity
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בתולה (bᵉthûwlâh) (H1330) — virgin.
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.
בְּתוּלִים
- preced.) virginity, token or symptom of virginity. טענת ב׳ suit of a husband against his young married wife concerning her virginity (Deut. XXII, 13 sq.). Keth. I, 1; a. fr.—Y. Yeb. VI, 7ᶜ top, a. e. כלו בְּתוּלֶיהָ the symptoms of virginity may have disappeared by absorption. Y. Nidd. 49ᵃ bot. בתולה לב׳ a b’thulah (virgin) as to virginity, opp. לדמים as to menstruation. e.g. Deuteronomy 22:13
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 10 distinct written forms H1331 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְתוּלִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:20 | 1 |
| בְתוּלֶ֑י/הָ | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 23:8 | 1 |
| בִ/בְתוּלֶ֖י/הָ | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Leviticus 21:13 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:17 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלִֽים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:14 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Deuteronomy 22:17 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלֵ֧י | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Deuteronomy 22:15 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלֵי/הֶֽן | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 23:3 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלֶ֖י/הָ | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Judges 11:38 | 1 |
| בְּתוּלַ֔/י | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Judges 11:37 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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
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.
