Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] bethulah equals virgin?


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> Sent: Wednesday, October 12,
> 2005 12:20 AM

> > Bethulah means "virgin".
>
> Could it be more general to mean a morally virtuous woman: either a virgin
> or a woman faithful in marriage to one husband from her virginity?

Sorry, Steve, I just don't see it. By the way, I don't think that the Torah 
considers an unmarried woman who is not a virgin to be "unvirtuous". If she 
married passing herself off as a virgin, that makes her a liar.

Yigal