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The word ` almah allows the possibility that the woman was a virgin.
The Jerusalem Bible, in a footnote to the word “maiden” (as `almah is translated by them in Isaiah 7:14) says:
, 1968) The Septuagint translates `almah in Isaiah 7:14 as parthenos.
My old lexicon also points out, as does Jack Orbaum, that the customary word for `virgin' is bethulah, not `almah .
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.