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Lexicon :: Strong's G3933 - parthenos

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παρθένος
Transliteration
parthenos (Key)
Pronunciation
par-then'-os
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of unknown origin
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:826,786

Strong’s Definitions

παρθένος parthénos, par-then'-os; of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication, an unmarried daughter:—virgin.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G3933 in the following manner: virgin (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G3933 in the following manner: virgin (14x).
  1. a virgin

    1. a marriageable maiden

    2. a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man

    3. one's marriageable daughter

  2. a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity

    1. one who has never had intercourse with women

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παρθένος parthénos, par-then'-os; of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication, an unmarried daughter:—virgin.
STRONGS G3933:
παρθένος, παρθένου, ,
1. a virgin: Matthew 1:23 (from Isaiah 7:14); Matthew 25:1,7,11; Luke 1:27; Acts 21:9; 1 Corinthians 7:25, 28, 33(1 Corinthians 7:34) (from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for בְּתוּלָה, several times for נַעֲרָה; twice for עַלמָה i. e. either a marriageable maiden, or a young (married) woman, Genesis 24:43; Isaiah 7:14, on which (last) word cf., besides Gesenius, Thesaurus, p. 1037, Credner, Beiträge as above with ii., p. 197ff; παρθένος of a young bride, newly married woman, Homer, Iliad 2, 514); παρθένον τίνος, one's marriageable daughter, 1 Corinthians 7:36ff; παρθένον ἁγνή, a pure virgin, 2 Corinthians 11:2.
2. "a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity": Revelation 14:4, where see DeWette. In ecclesiastical writings one who has never had commerce with women; so of Joseph, in Fabricius, Cod. pseudepigr. Vet. Test. ii., pp. 92, 98; of Abel and Melchizedek, in Suidas (10 a. and 2450 b.); especially of the apostle John, as in Nonnus, metaphorically, ev. Joann. 19, 140 (John 19:26), ἠνίδε παρθένον
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:43
Isaiah
7:14; 7:14
Matthew
1:23; 25:1; 25:7; 25:11
Luke
1:27
John
19:26
Acts
21:9
1 Corinthians
7:25; 7:28; 7:33; 7:34; 7:36
2 Corinthians
11:2
Revelation
14:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3933 matches the Greek παρθένος (parthenos),
which occurs 52 times in 50 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will give water to your camels to drink also’—may she be the one whom You have decided for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - Now the young woman was very beautiful in appearance, a virgin, and no man had [fn]known her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and may it be that the [fn]maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman stay with us a few days, or even ten; afterward she will go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - [fn]And he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke to the heart of the young woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:16 -

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - “If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall [fn]pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - also for his virgin sister, who is near to him [fn]because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:13 - ‘And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - ‘A widow or a divorced woman or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine him [fn]one hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father because he brought forth a bad name against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot [fn]divorce her all his days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 -

“If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 -

“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are found,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 -

‘Outside the sword will bereave,

And inside terror

Both choice man and virgin,

The nursing baby with the man of gray hair.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:24 - “Behold, my daughter who is a virgin, and his concubine—please let me bring them out that you may violate them and do to them whatever is good in your eyes. But do not commit such a disgraceful act against this man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with [fn]him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - And Amnon was so distressed because of his sister Tamar that he made himself ill, for she was a virgin. So it was hard in Amnon’s sight to do anything to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - Now she had on a [fn]long-sleeved garment; for in this manner the virgin daughters of the king dressed themselves in robes. Then his attendant took her out and locked the door behind her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - “This is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him:

‘She has despised you and mocked you,

The virgin daughter of Zion;

She has shaken her head behind you,

The daughter of Jerusalem!

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who killed their choice men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on choice man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17 -

And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she advanced in favor and lovingkindness before him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:1 -

“I have cut a covenant with my eyes;

How then could I gaze at a virgin?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:14 -

She will be led to the King in embroidered work;

The virgins, her companions who follow her,

Will be brought to You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 -

Fire devoured [fn]His choice men,

And [fn]His virgins had no wedding songs.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 -

Both choice men as well as virgins;

The old with the young.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:14 - “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the [fn]virgin [fn]will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name [fn]Immanuel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 -

Be ashamed, O Sidon;

For the sea speaks, the strong defense of the sea, saying,

“I have neither travailed nor given birth;

I have neither brought up choice men nor reared virgins.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:22 - this is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him:

“She has despised you and mocked you,

The virgin daughter of Zion;

She has shaken her head behind you,

The daughter of Jerusalem!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:1 -

“Come down and sit in the dust,

O virgin daughter of Babylon;

Sit on the ground without a throne,

O daughter of the Chaldeans!

For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 -

For as a young man marries a virgin,

So your sons will marry you;

And as the [fn]bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

So your God will rejoice over you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 -

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments,

Or a bride her attire?

Yet My people have forgotten Me

Days without number.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:13 -

“Therefore thus says Yahweh,

‘Ask now among the nations,

Who ever heard the like of [fn]this?

The virgin of Israel

Has done a most appalling thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:4 -

“Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt,

O virgin of Israel!

Again you will [fn]take up your tambourines

And go forth to the dances of those celebrating.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 -

“Then the virgin will be glad in the dance,

And the young men and the old, together,

For I will turn their mourning into joy

And will comfort them and give them gladness for their sorrow.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 -

“Set up roadmarks for yourself,

Place for yourself guideposts;

Set your heart to the highway,

The way by which you went.

Return, O virgin of Israel,

Return to these your cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 -

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,

O virgin daughter of Egypt!

In vain have you multiplied [fn]remedies;

There is no healing for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22 -

And with you I shatter man and woman,

And with you I shatter old man and youth,

And with you I shatter choice man and virgin,

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 -

Daleth

The roads [fn]of Zion are in mourning

Because no one comes to the appointed times.

All her gates are desolate;

Her priests are sighing,

Her virgins are grieving,

And she herself [fn]is bitter.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 -

Samekh

“The Lord has rejected all my mighty men

In my midst;

He has called an appointed time against me

To break my young men;

The Lord has trodden as in a wine press

The virgin daughter of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 -

Tsadhe

“Yahweh is righteous;

For I have rebelled against His [fn]command;

Hear now, all peoples,

And behold my [fn]pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 -

Yodh

The elders of the daughter of Zion

Sit on the ground; they are silent.

They have thrown dust up on their heads;

They have girded themselves with sackcloth.

The virgins of Jerusalem

Have bowed their heads down to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13 -

Mem

What shall I testify about you?

To what shall I equate you,

O daughter of Jerusalem?

To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,

O virgin daughter of Zion?

For your [fn]destruction is as vast as the sea;

Who can heal you?

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 -

Shin

On the ground in the streets

Lie young and old;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of Your anger;

You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 -

They violated the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - “Kill to utter destruction old men, chosen men, virgins, little ones, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the [fn]elders who were before the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:22 - “And they shall not [fn]take a widow or a divorced woman as a wife but shall take virgins from the seed of the house of Israel or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 -

She has fallen; she will not rise again

The virgin Israel.

She lies abandoned on her land;

There is none to raise her up.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:13 -

“In that day the beautiful virgins

And the choice men will faint from thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 -

For what goodness and what beauty will be [fn]theirs!

Grain will make the choice men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

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