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|txtha=παρθένου, ἡ,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[virgin]]: Homer down; the Sept. [[chiefly]] for בְּתוּלָה, [[several]] times for נַעֲרָה; [[twice]] for עַלמָה i. e. [[either]] a marriageable [[maiden]], or a [[young]] (married) [[woman]], [[παρθένος]] of a [[young]] [[bride]], [[newly]] married [[woman]], [[Homer]], Iliad 2,514); ἡ παρθένον τίνος, [[one]]'s marriageable [[daughter]], παρθένον ἁγνή, a [[pure]] [[virgin]], [[one]] [[who]] has [[never]] had [[commerce]] [[with]] women; so of Joseph, in [[Fabricius]], Cod. pseudepigr. Vet. Test. ii., pp. 92,98; of Abel and Melchizedek, in Suidas (10a. and 2450b.); [[especially]] of the [[apostle]] John, as in Nonnus, [[metaphorically]], ev. Joann. 19,140 ([[ἠνίδε]] παρθένον