Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
virginity
Usage: virginity
Bethulim means “virginity” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1331 — dierotao (“make enquiry for”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1331 בְּתוּלִים (bthuwliym) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bthuwliym (beth-oo-leem') n-f. 1. (collectively and abstractly) virginity 2. (by implication, concretely) the tokens of it It has 9 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include virginity. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
bthuwliym (beth-oo-leem') n-f. 1. (collectively and abstractly) virginity 2. (by implication, concretely) the tokens of it [masculine plural of the same as H1330] KJV: X maid, virginity. Root(s): H1330
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virginity
Usage: virginity
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bthuwliym, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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9 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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:
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:
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1331.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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:
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:
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 they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
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 and my fellows.
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.
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 virginity.
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 upon her.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1331, grouped by book.
Bethulim (Strong's H1331) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "virginity". bthuwliym (beth-oo-leem') n-f. 1. (collectively and abstractly) virginity 2. (by implication, concretely) the tokens of it
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's H1331 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1331 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as virginity. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.