Lexical Summary parthenos: a maiden, a virgin Original Word: παρθένοςTransliteration: parthenos Phonetic Spelling: (par-then'-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a maiden, a virgin Meaning: a maiden, a virgin Strong's Concordance virgin. Of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication, an unmarried daughter -- virgin. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3933: παρθένοςπαρθένος, παρθένου, ἡ, 1. a virgin: Matthew 1:23 (from Isaiah 7:14); 2. "a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity": Revelation 14:4, where see DeWette. In ecclesiastical writings 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 (10 a. and 2450 b.); especially of the apostle John, as in Nonnus, metaphorically, ev. Joann. 19, 140 (John 19:26), ἠνίδε παρθένον |