Example sentences for: parthenos

How can you use “parthenos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It may be worth noting here that Martin Luther used the word Jungfrau to translate `almah , bethulah , and parthenos . Jungfrau , although referring almost exclusively to `virgin' in present-day German, has the literal root sense of `young woman,' or `young wife.

  • Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament says of parthenos: “a virgin.

  • , 1968) The Septuagint translates `almah in Isaiah 7:14 as parthenos.

  • .” 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.

  • As is well known, this Greek text renders the word with the technical word for virgin, parthenos, not with what one would expect, neanis--young maid, the Greek word which is deliberately put in place here in the ancient Greek versions of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast