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we return to Isa 7:14 and especially the Septuagint rendition of `alma.
Gesenius-Robinson, by the way, translates bethulah as “a virgin pure and unspotted,” “a virgin just married,” and “a young spouse” (see Joel 1:8, where bethulah is translated by the Septuagint as nymphe, “a betrothed woman, a bride,” “a recently married woman, young wife”-- Thayer).
We suggest that the Septuagint sees the maid as Jerusalem, the virgin spouse of the Lord.
.” 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.
That brings us to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament “said to have been made by 72 Palestinian Jews during the third century B.C. at the command of Ptolemy Philadelphus.