Lexicon :: Strong's H1330 - bᵊṯûlâ

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

“If a young woman who is a virgin is engaged (legally betrothed) to a man, and another man finds her in the city and is intimate with her,

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

‘Outside the sword will bereave,

And inside [the chambers] terror—

For both young man and virgin,

For the nursing child and the man of gray hair.

‘The virgin daughter of Zion

Has despised you and mocked you;

The daughter of Jerusalem

Has shaken her head behind you!

Now the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the [other] virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen in the place of Vashti.

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai [fn]was sitting at the king’s gate.

“I have made a covenant (agreement) with my eyes;

How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?

She will be brought to the King in embroidered garments;

The virgins, her companions who follow her,

Will be brought to You.

The fire [of war] devoured His young men,

And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.

Both young men and virgins;

Old men and children.

Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];

For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,

“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];

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

He has said, “You shall never again exult [in triumph], O crushed Virgin Daughter of Sidon.

Arise, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

“She has shown contempt for you and mocked you,

The Virgin Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem);

She has shaken her head behind you,

The Daughter of Jerusalem!

“Come down and sit in the dust,

O virgin daughter of Babylon;

Sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you,

O daughter of the [fn]Chaldeans,

For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

For as a young man marries a virgin [O Jerusalem],

[fn]So your sons will marry you;

And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

So your God will rejoice over you.

“Can a virgin forget [to wear] her ornaments,

Or a bride her attire [that identifies her as a married woman]?

Yet My people have forgotten Me

Days without number.

“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,

‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,

And let them never cease;

For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,

With a very serious and severely infected wound.

“Therefore thus says the LORD,

‘Ask now among the nations,

Who has heard of such things?

The virgin Israel

Has done a very vile and horrible thing.

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

O Virgin Israel!

You will again be adorned with your tambourines and [fn]timbrels

And go out to the dances of those who celebrate.

“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,

And the young men and old, together,

For I will turn their mourning into joy

And will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.

“Place for yourself road signs [toward Canaan],

Make for yourself guideposts;

Turn your thought and attention to the highway,

To the way by which you went [into exile].

Retrace your steps, O virgin of Israel,

Return to these your cities.

Go up to Gilead and obtain [healing] balm,

O Virgin Daughter of Egypt!

In vain you use many medicines;

For you there is no healing or remedy.

With you I shatter man and woman,

With you I shatter old man and youth,

With you I shatter young man and virgin,

The roads to Zion are in mourning

Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.

All her gates are desolate;

Her priests are groaning,

Her virgins are grieved and suffering,

And she suffers bitterly.

“The Lord has rejected all the strong men

In my midst;

He has proclaimed an established time against me

To crush my young men.

The Lord has trampled down as in a wine press

The Virgin Daughter of Judah.

“The LORD is righteous and just;

For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word).

Hear now, all you peoples,

And look at my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion

Sit on the ground keeping silent;

They have thrown dust on their heads,

They have covered themselves with sackcloth.

The virgins of Jerusalem

Have bowed their heads to the ground.

How shall I console you?

To what shall I compare you,

O Daughter of Jerusalem?

With what shall I compare you, so that I may comfort you,

O Virgin Daughter of Zion?

For your ruin is as vast as the sea;

Who can heal you?

The young and the old

Lie on the ground in the streets;

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.

They ravished the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with [fn]sackcloth

For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].

She has fallen, she will not rise again—

The virgin Israel.

She lies neglected on her land;

There is no one to raise her up.

“In that day the beautiful virgins

And [even the vigorous] young men shall faint from thirst.

For how great is God’s goodness and how great is His beauty! And how great [He will make Israel’s] goodliness and [Israel’s] beauty!

Grain and new wine will make the young men and virgins flourish.