בְּתוּלִים betulim

Hebrew word for “virginity” · Strong’s H1331 · used 10 times in 9 verses

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Meaning

virginity

How it is translated

Glosses given for betulim in context, with how often each is used:

• virginities 10

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 22 (4), Judges 11 (2), Ezekiel 23 (2), Leviticus 21 (1)

Forms

• בתולים 3
• בתולי 3
• בתוליה 2
• בבתוליה 1
• בתוליהן 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with betulim more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רֵעָה reah “companion” 2
• דַּד dad “breast” 2
• עֲלִילָה alilah “wantonness” 2
• נְעוּרִים naur “youth” 2
• נַעֲרָה naarah “maiden” 2
• מָצָא matsa “to find” 3
• דָּבָר davar “word” 4
• בָּכָה bakhah “to weep” 2
• זָקֵן zaqen “old” 2
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 3
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 2
• הַר har “mountain” 2

Key verses

The verses using betulim that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 21:13 — And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
• Deuteronomy 22:14 — And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
• Deuteronomy 22:15 — Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
• Deuteronomy 22:17 — And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And…
• Deuteronomy 22:20 — But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
• Judges 11:37 — And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I…
• Judges 11:38 — And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
• Ezekiel 23:3 — And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their…
• Ezekiel 23:8 — Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.