Peter J. Gentry
Old Testament scholar, emeritus professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and distinguished visiting professor at Phoenix Seminary, specializing in Septuagint studies.
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Oct 4, 2026
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Catalan, classical
Peter J. GentryGUEST
Italian, and moving outside the Indo-European family of languages, it occurs also in Japanese, for example, and then even in a Semitic language like Arabic.
Peter J. GentryGUEST
So all of these languages have a word for young girl, a word for virgin, regardless of the age of the person, and a word that specifically means young virgin, so a virgin who is young.
Peter J. GentryGUEST
And so the argument that a second word would be redundant is totally invalid.
Peter J. GentryGUEST
In fact, Hebrew would... would match Arabic here in having a word for young girl, a word batula for virgin, regardless of the age of the person, and a word that specifically means young virgin.
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