Bible & Text
If 'almah means "young woman" in Hebrew why did the Jewish scholar who translated the Book of Isaiah into Greek use a Greek word for "virgin," part...
Parthenos (virgin) - The etymology of the Greek word parthenos is uncertain. A complicating factor is that there are several instances of the word ...
‘Almah The Christian understanding of the scriptural uses of ‘almah is usually governed by the attempt to prove that the word means virgin in Isaia...
Betulah It is a fact of biblical usage that betulah is the Hebrew word for “virgin,” consistently used in passages which leave no room for specula...
Why does the Septuagint use parthenos? The Hebrew phrase ha-‘almah harah ve-yoledet ben literally rendered is “the ‘almah pregnant and shall bear ...