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My old lexicon also points out, as does Jack Orbaum, that the customary word for `virgin' is bethulah, not `almah .
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.
which uses almah, meaning either a young girl or a young, recently married woman.
Rebekah's virginity was never in question and she was referred to as ` almah , not betulah . Therefore, Mr. Orbaum is incorrect when he says that the Hebrew betulah “would have been used in the original had the young woman been a virgin.”
, 1968) The Septuagint translates `almah in Isaiah 7:14 as parthenos.
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