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, 1968) The Septuagint translates `almah in Isaiah 7:14 as parthenos.
Jack Orbaum comments on the King James Version's “mistranslation” (Isaiah 7:14) of the Hebrew almah as `virgin' [XVII, 4].
Another mistranslation which has probably had a much greater influence on the Western world is that of the Hebrew word almah , which means `young woman' but was translated as `virgin.
These 20th-century corrections of the original mistranslation cannot, of course, undo the implications that have resulted from translating almah as `virgin' instead of `young 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.