1. young woman, maiden, virgin — A young woman of marriageable age, with connotations of virginity in many translation traditions. All four clusters represent grammatical variants (singular with article, plural, plural absolute, prepositional) of this single lexical meaning. Multilingual glosses consistently confirm one unified sense: eng: young woman/maidens/virgin, spa: doncella/doncellas (maiden/s), hin: कुंवारी/कुंवारियाँ (virgin/s), arb: الفتاة/العذراء/العذارى (the young woman/the virgin/virgins), kor: 처녀/처녀들 (virgin/s), swa: msichana/bikira/wanawali/mwanamwali (girl/virgin/maidens). The term is notably used in Isaiah 7:14 (S124479) where arb renders العذراء and swa renders bikira, both meaning 'virgin'. 7×
AR["العَذارى","العَذرَاءُ","الْعَذْرَاءُ","الْفَتَاةُ","بِ-عَذْراءَ","عَلَمُوت","وَ-عَلَمُوت"]·ben["-কুমারীর-সাথে","-যুবতী","এবং-কুমারীরা","কুমারীরা","যুবতী","সেই-যুবতী"]·DE["[העלמה]","[ועלמות]","[עלמות]","der-jung-Frau","die-Jungfrau","in-junge-Frau","young-women"]·EN["and-maidens","maidens","the-virgin","the-young-woman","with-a-virgin","young-women"]·FR["[העלמה]","dans-בעלמה","et-des-jeunes-filles","le-jeune-femme","les-jeunes-filles","vierge"]·heb["ב-עלמה","ה-עלמה","ו-עלמות","עלמות"]·HI["और-कुंवारियाँ","कन̃वारी","कुंवारियाँ","कुंवारी","कुंवारी-में।"]·ID["dan-gadis-gadis","dengan-seorang-gadis","gadis","gadis-gadis","gadis-itu","perawan","perawan-perawan"]·IT["[העלמה]","[עלמות]","e-e-maidens","il-giovane-donna","in-con-un-virgin","maidens"]·jav["gadis-gadis","kaliyan-prawan","lan-prawan","laré-prawan","para-prawan","prawan"]·KO["그-처녀가","그리고-처녀들-은","처녀-들-이","처녀가","처녀들-이","처녀와-함께함이다"]·PT["a-donzela","a-jovem","a-virgem","donzelas","e-virgens","em-virgem","virgens"]·RU["дева","девиц","девица","девы","и-дев","к-деве"]·ES["con-doncella","doncellas","la-doncella","y-doncellas"]·SW["bikira","msichana","na-mwanamwali","na-wanawali","wanawali","wasichana"]·TR["-genç-kız","bakire","bakireler","genç-kız","genç-kızda","kızların","ve-bakireler"]·urd["-کنواری","اور-کنواریاں","جوان-عورت","میں-کنواری","کنواری","کنواریاں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עַלְמָה n.f. young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married);—ע׳ Gn 24:43 (J), Ex 2:8 (E), Pr 30:19 Is 7:14; pl. עֲלָמוֹת ψ 68:26 Ct 1:3; 6:8; עַל־עֲלָמוֹת to (the voice of) young women, either lit., or of soprano or falsetto of boys: 1 Ch 15:20 ψ 9:1 (read עַל־עֲלָמוֹת לַבֵּן [for עַל־מוּת לַבֵּן, ‘voce virginea a pueris decantandum,’ Thes), 46:1; 48:15 (read עַל־עֲלָמוֹת [for עַל־מוּת]; tr. prob. to 49:1).