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  • From: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] virgin vs young woman
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:56:47 +0000

A lot of people say that betula does not mean virgin because in some quotes it says a virgin that did not know a man, so "that did not know a man" shows that the word means virgin in that quote.

I have read that in the Tanakh there are many examples of unnecessary repetition. For example, Leviticus 11:41 and 43 say not to eat "swarming things that swarm". It could have just said not to eat swarming things. Why say "that swarm"?

Genesis 25:8 and 17 say Abraham expired and died. Aren't they both the same?

Job 42:17 says he was old and full of days. Isn't that unnecessary repetition also?

Maybe repetition of ideas is just normal in the Tanakh.

Kenneth Greifer

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