Lexicon :: Strong's H1330 - bᵊṯûlâ

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin ​— ​no man had been intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and he sleeps with her, he must certainly pay the bridal price for her to be his wife.

“He may make himself unclean for his unmarried virgin sister in his immediate family.

“He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

“If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

“If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

“Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, there will be terror;

the young man and the young woman will be killed,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

“Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine now. Abuse them and do whatever you want to them. But don’t commit this outrageous thing against this man.”

They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not been intimate with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Amnon was frustrated to the point of making himself sick over his sister Tamar because she was a virgin, but it seemed impossible to do anything to her.

Amnon’s servant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a long-sleeved[fn] robe, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.

So his servants said to him, “Let us[fn] search for a young virgin for my lord the king. She is to attend the king and be his caregiver. She is to lie by your side so that my lord the king will get warm.”

“This is the word the LORD has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion

despises you and scorns you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head behind your back.

So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.

The king’s personal attendants suggested, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

The king loved Esther more than all the other women. She won more favor and approval from him than did any of the other virgins. He placed the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the King’s Gate.

I have made a covenant with my eyes.

How then could I look at a young woman?[fn]

In colorful garments she is led to the king;

after her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you.

Fire consumed his chosen young men,

and his young women had no wedding songs.[fn]

young men as well as young women,

old and young together.

Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have not been in labor or given birth.

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

He said,

“You will not celebrate anymore,

ravished young woman, daughter of Sidon.

Get up and cross over to Cyprus —

even there you will have no rest! ”

“this is the word the LORD has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion

despises you and scorns you;

Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head

behind your back.

“Go down and sit in the dust,

Virgin Daughter Babylon.

Sit on the ground without a throne,

Daughter Chaldea!

For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.

For as a young man marries a young woman,

so your sons will marry you;

and as a groom rejoices over his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

Can a young woman forget her jewelry

or a bride her wedding sash?

Yet my people have forgotten me

for countless days.

You are to speak this word to them:

Let my eyes overflow with tears;

day and night may they not stop,

for my dearest people[fn]

have been destroyed by a crushing blow,

an extremely severe wound.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

Ask among the nations,

who has heard things like these?

Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.

Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,

Virgin Israel.

You will take up your tambourines again

and go out in joyful dancing.

Then the young women will rejoice with dancing,

while young and old men rejoice together.

I will turn their mourning into joy,

give them consolation,

and bring happiness out of grief.

Set up road markers for yourself;

establish signposts!

Keep the highway in mind,

the way you have traveled.

Return, Virgin Israel!

Return to these cities of yours.

Go up to Gilead and get balm,

Virgin Daughter Egypt!

You have multiplied remedies in vain;

there is no healing for you.

With you I will smash man and woman;

with you I will smash the old man and the youth;

with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.

The roads to Zion mourn,

for no one comes to the appointed festivals.

All her gates are deserted;

her priests groan,

her young women grieve,

and she herself is bitter.

The Lord has rejected

all the mighty men within me.

He has summoned an army[fn] against me

to crush my young warriors.

The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah

like grapes in a winepress.

The LORD is just,

for I have rebelled against his command.

Listen, all you people;

look at my pain.

My young women and young men

have gone into captivity.

The elders of Daughter 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.

What can I say on your behalf?

What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?

What can I liken you to,

so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?

For your ruin is as vast as the sea.

Who can heal you?

Both young and old

are lying on the ground in the streets.

My young women and young men

have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of your anger,

slaughtering without compassion.

Women have been raped in Zion,

virgins in the cities of Judah.

“Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

“He is not to marry a widow or a divorced woman, but may marry only a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,

mourning for the husband of her youth.

She has fallen;

Virgin Israel will never rise again.

She lies abandoned on her land

with no one to raise her up.

In that day the beautiful young women,

the young men also, will faint from thirst.

How lovely and beautiful!

Grain will make the young men flourish,

and new wine, the young women.