Bᵉthûwlîym — H1331

Definition

feminine noun

(collectively and abstractly) virginity; by implication and concretely, the tokens of it

1. virginity

Usually translated as

virginity, maid

Origin

masculine plural of the same as H1330

• Same as Bᵉthûwlâh (H1330)

Occurrences

Bᵉthûwlîym occurs 10 times in 9 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (4), Judges (2), Ezekiel (2)

• Leviticus 21:13 — And he shall take a wife in her virginity (בִבְתוּלֶ֖יהָ).
• 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 (בְּתוּלִֽים):
• Deuteronomy 22:15 — Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity (בְּתוּלֵ֧י) 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 (בְּתוּלִ֔ים); and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
• 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 (בְּתוּלֵ֣י). And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
• Deuteronomy 22:20 — But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity (בְתוּלִ֖ים) 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 (בְּתוּלַ֔י), I and my fellows.
• 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 (בְּתוּלֶ֖יהָ) 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 virginity (בְּתוּלֵיהֶֽן).
• 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 (בְתוּלֶ֑יהָ), and poured their whoredom upon her.