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which uses almah, meaning either a young girl or a young, recently married woman.
.” So we see that the Greek word “chiefly” chosen by the Septuagint scholars to mean parthenos is the word bethulah , which Mr. Orbaum stresses is “the Hebrew word for virgin .” But the Jewish scholars of the Septuagint also chose the word parthenos to translate `almah in Isaiah 7:14, where one might have expected a less specific word.
A better English match than `young woman' for almah is `maiden,' which, while it narrowly means only `young woman,' certainly connotes virginity.
1. The word ` almah which appears in Isaiah 7:14 can be translated `young woman' or `maiden' or `woman of marriageable age.
Jack Orbaum comments on the King James Version's “mistranslation” (Isaiah 7:14) of the Hebrew almah as `virgin' [XVII, 4].