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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: btwlh & `lmh
  • Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:41:27 -0500


On 29 Jan 01, at 16:46, Charles David Isbell wrote:

> Remember if either betulah or parthenos is used even one time to
> refer to a female who has had sex in any fashion, then neither word
> can carry the modern meaning of "virgin".

Assuming that the connotations of the words never changed over time....

Lewis Reich





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