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When the gospel writers read Isaiah 7:14 in the Greek, they read parthenos , the Greek translation of ` almah . This term had a narrower range of meaning than ` almah , and more specifically meant “virgin,” but it was within the range of equivalence for the Hebrew term ` almah . The gospel writer did not misquote the Bible in this matter.
Jack Orbaum comments on the King James Version's “mistranslation” (Isaiah 7:14) of the Hebrew almah as `virgin' [XVII, 4].
The Jerusalem Bible, in a footnote to the word “maiden” (as `almah is translated by them in Isaiah 7:14) says:
which uses almah, meaning either a young girl or a young, recently married woman.
Innumerable chapters and verses might be cited without a definitive answer and without convincing any one side of the debate that `almah unquestionably means, or does not mean, `virgin' in Isaiah 7:14.