1. virgin, maiden — A person (typically a young woman) who has not had sexual relations; used both literally of unmarried women who have kept their chastity and figuratively of the church or spiritual purity. Multilingual evidence confirms a single unified sense across singular and plural forms: spa 'virgen/vírgenes,' hin 'कुंवारी/कुंवारियों' (kunvārī), arb 'عَذْراء/عَذَارَى' (ʿaḏrāʾ), kor '처녀' (cheonyeo), swa 'bikira/wanawali.' The plural cluster S74151 includes masculine nominative (N-NMP) reflecting the rare application to male virgins in Rev 14:4. All forms represent the same core lexical meaning of virginity/sexual purity. 15×
AR["العذارى","العَذْراءُ","العَذْرَاءُ","الْعَذَارَى","الْعَذْرَاءِ","عَذارى","عَذَارَى","عَذْراءَ","عَذْرائِ","عَذْرَاءَ"]·ben["কুমারী","কুমারী,","কুমারীকে,","কুমারীদের,","কুমারীদের-সঙ্গে","কুমারীর","কুমারীরা"]·DE["Jungfrau","Jungfrauen"]·EN["a-virgin","to-virgins","virgin","virgins"]·FR["vierge"]·heb["בְּתוּלִים","בְּתוּלָה","בְּתוּלוֹת","בְתוּלוֹת"]·HI["कुँवारी","कुंवारियां","कुंवारियों","कुंवारी","कुंवारे"]·ID["anak-anak-dara","anak-anak-gadis,","anak-dara","anak-gadis","anak-gadis,","itu","perawan"]·IT["parthenoi","vergine"]·jav["para-prawan,","prawan","prawan,"]·KO["처녀","처녀-가","처녀-에게","처녀-의","처녀가","처녀는","처녀들","처녀들-에게","처녀들-이","처녀들로서","처녀들이니","처녀로","처녀를"]·PT["virgem","virgem,","virgens","virgens,"]·RU["Дева","дева,","девам","деве","девицы,","девой","девственники","девственницах,","деву,","девы"]·ES["virgen","vírgenes"]·SW["bikira","bikira,","mabikira,","wabikira","wanawali","yake"]·TR["bakire","bakireler","bakirenin","bakiresini","kaygılanır","korumayı","kızlar","kızlara","o-"]·urd["کنواری","کنواری-کا","کنواری-کی","کنواریاں","کنواریوں","کنوارے"]
Matt 1:23, Matt 25:1, Matt 25:7, Matt 25:11, Luke 1:27, Luke 1:27, Acts 21:9, 1 Cor 7:25, 1 Cor 7:28, 1 Cor 7:34, 1 Cor 7:36, 1 Cor 7:37 (+3 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
παρθένος, Laconian dialect παρσένος Refs 5th c.BC+. ἡ, maiden, girl, Refs 8th c.BC+; αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί my unhappy girls, Refs 8th c.BC+; π. κόρα, of the Sphinx, uncertain in Refs 5th c.BC+; θυγάτηρ π. Refs 5th c.BC+; of Persephone, Refs 5th c.BC+; virgin, opposed to γυνή, Refs 3rd c.BC+ __2 of unmarried women who are not virgins, Refs 8th c.BC+ __3 Παρθένος, ἡ, the Virgin Goddess, as a title of…