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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
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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, ἡ,
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); ἡ 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this[fn] I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden[fn] whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, “Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:16 - “If a man seduces a virgin[fn] who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price[fn] for her and make her his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:13 - And he shall take a wife in her virginity.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin[fn] of his own people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine him a hundred shekels[fn] of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin[fn] of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:24 - Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

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 him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves,[fn] for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms,[fn] that my lord the king may be warm.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him:
“She despises you, she scorns you—
the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17 - the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown[fn] on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:1 - “I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I gaze at a virgin?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:14 - In many-colored robes she is led to the king,
with her virgin companions following behind her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 - Young men and maidens together,
old men and children!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth,
I have neither reared young men
nor brought up young women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:22 - this is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him:
“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:1

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 more be called
tender and delicate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:32

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:13 - “Therefore thus says the LORD:
Ask among the nations,
Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
has done a very horrible thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:4 - Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.
I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - “Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself guideposts;
consider well the highway,
the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - Go up to Gilead, and take balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain you have used many medicines;
there is no healing for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22 - with you I break in pieces man and woman;
with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth;
with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to the festival;
all her gates are desolate;
her priests groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[fn]
and she herself suffers bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord rejected
all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
to crush my young men;
the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
the virgin daughter of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - “The LORD is in the right,
for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and see my suffering;
my young women and my young men
have gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - The elders of the daughter of Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13 - What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - In the dust of the streets
lie the young and the old;
my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering without pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:22 - They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - “Fallen, no more to rise,
is the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
with none to raise her up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:13 - “In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 - For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
Grain shall make the young men flourish,
and new wine the young women.
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