Quick Definition
παρθένος, ου, ὁ, ἡ n.f. a virgin
Strong's Definition
of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication, an unmarried daughter
KJV Usage: virgin
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m./f. | -ου | παρθενία
9.39 · People · Females
virgin, young woman a female person beyond puberty but not yet married and a virgin (though in some contexts virginity is not a focal component of meaning) In ACT 21:9 (τούτῳ δὲ ἦσαν θυγατέρες τέσσαρες παρθένοι ‘he had four virgin daughters’) the emphasis seems to be upon the fact that the daughters were not as yet married. (See 34.77.) Similarly, in MAT 25:1 the ten παρθένοι are unmarried girls desirous of participating in a wedding party, and the emphasis would seem to be more upon their being unmarried rather than upon their being virgins.
In obtaining a satisfactory term for ‘virgin,’ there are often a number of difficulties. For example, a term which designates a virgin may also imply participation in a particular set of ritual or cult practices consisting of puberty rites, in which ritual sexual intercourse is an integral element. In some languages a term which technically means ‘virgin’ is also employed with unacceptable connotations in that it may suggest that the woman in question has a queer personality or unattractive appearance and therefore is to be sexually avoided. In some instances a term which in some contexts may be equivalent to ‘virgin’ may also refer to a homosexual female who has not had relations with a man but who does engage in sexual relations with women.
MAT 1:23 · MAT 25:1 · MAT 25:7 · MAT 25:11 · LUK 1:27 · LUK 1:27 · ACT 21:9 · 1CO 7:34 · 1CO 7:36 · 1CO 7:37 · 1CO 7:38 · 2CO 11:2
9.33 · People · Males
virgin, chaste an adult male who has not engaged in sexual relations with a woman It is very rare that the same term can be applied to a man who has not engaged in sexual relations with a woman as is used in speaking of a woman who has not had sexual relations with a man. In fact, in English the use of ‘virgin’ as applied to a man seems strange. In many languages there is simply no term for a man who is a virgin, since such a state is regarded as being rather unthinkable. However, the first part of this statement in REV 14:4 indicates clearly the state of the persons in question. But if one does attempt to find a satisfactory term, it is important to determine whether such a word implies homosexuality, for this tends to be the case in some languages. See also comments at 9.39.
In most languages terms for the age-grading of females parallel quite closely those relating to males. The principal distinctions in age include (1) girl babies before the age of weaning; (2) from weaning to puberty; (3) from puberty to marriage; (4) from marriage to menopause; and (5) after menopause.
34.77 · Association · Marriage, Divorce
unmarried person a person who has not as yet married (and possibly implying virginity) Some scholars interpret παρθένος[c] as referring not only to those who have never married, but also to widows and widowers who have not remarried. The meaning of unmarried persons who are not necessarily virgins is well attested in Greek from classical times.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παρθένος, -ov, ἡ» 1. a virgin: Mt. i. 23 (fr. Is. vii. 14); xxv. 1, 7,11; Lk.i.27; Acts xxi.9; 1 Co. vii. 25, 28, 33(34), (fr. Hom. down; Sept. chiefly for 773n3, several times for 773; twice for 77p i.e. either a marriageable maiden, or a young (married) woman, Gen. xxiv. 43; Is. vii. 14, on which (last) word cf., besides Gesenius, Thes. p. 1037, Credner, Beitriige u.s.w. ii. p. 197 sqq.; παρθένος of a young bride, newly married woman, Hom. Il. 2, 514); ἡ παρθ. τινός, one’s marriageable daughter, 1 Co. vii. 36 sqq.; παρθ. ἁγνή, a pure virgin, 2 Co. xi. 2. 2. a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity: Rev. xiv. 4, where see De Wette. In ecel. writ. 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.]; esp. of the apostle John, as in Nonnus, metaph. ev. Joann. 19, 140 (Jn. xix. 26), nvide παρθένον via.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παρθένος parthenos 15x
a virgin, maid, Mt. 1:23; 25:1, 7, 11; Acts 21:9; in NT also masc., chaste, Rev. 14:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παρθένος, -ου, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for בְּתוּלָה, Ex 22:16 (15), Jb 31:1, Is 23:4, al.; also for נַעַר, נַעֲרָה, Ge 24:14, 16, 55 34:3, and for עַלְמָה, Ge 24:43, Is 7:14;]
a maiden, virgin: Mt 1:23(LXX) 25:1, 7, 11, Lk 1:27, Ac 21:9, I Co 7:25 ff., II Co 11:2; masc., of chaste persons (CIG, 8784 b): Re 14:4.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παρθένος, “maiden,” ‘‘virgin”: cf. P Ryl II. 125% (a.p. 28-9) διὰ τῆς ἑατοῦ θυγατρὸς παρθένου, ani P Lond 983 (iv/A.D.) (=III. p. 229), where a man complains of abusive language addressed τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ συμβίῳ kal τῇ παρθένῳ pov θυγατρί. In Αιαλδε! 565% (not later than ii/aA.D.) παρθένος is a child of five years of age. For the rare fem. form ἡ παρθένη (cf. MGr παρθένα), Hatzidakis (Zin/. p. 24) cites a papyrus published in the Journal des Savants, 1873, p. 100. In farm accounts, P Fay 1029 (c. A.D. 105), payments are made for παρθέ(νων) λικνιζουσῶ(ν), ‘girls winnowing.”’ For at παρθένοι αἱ tepal, see the citation from Michel 694 σὺ. εἶτεν, and cf. ΝΥ. M. Ramsay dun. of Brit. School at Athens xviii. p. 58. The masc. used of men who have not known women in Rev 14* may be paralleled from C/G IV. 87844— Σκεῦος θεουργὸν (cf. Ac 91:8) συλλαλείτω παρθένῳ βλάβης σκέπεσθαι δεσπότην Κωνσταντῖνον : cf. also Joseph and Asenath 3 ἐστὶν δὲ οὗτος ὁ Ἰωσὴφ ἀνὴρ θεοσεβὴς καὶ σώφρων καὶ παρθένος, 12. 6 ἄσπασον τὸν ἀδελφόν σου, διότι καὶ αὐτὸς παρθένος. The adj. παρθεν(ε)ίος is found in the illiterate P Ryl IT. 435? (ii/A.D.) παρήγκελκά ov (/. παρήγγελκά σοι) ἄλλα (for accentuation, Archiv vi. p. 379) ἅπαξ ὅτι ἄρεν (/. dpov) τὰ παρθένειά σου τέκνα, ‘‘I have charged you more than once ‘Take away your children born of a maiden’”: cf. παρθενικός in P Lond 47* (ii/aA.p.) (=I. p. 82) δάφνη παρθε[νι]κή. See also P Par 5711:21 (B.c. 156) where for παρθένην Wilcken (UPZi. p. 445) suggests παρθενικήν or παρθένειον with ζώνην understood. For different forms of the word used as proper names see Preisigke Wamenbuch.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παρθένος (parthenos) — virgin. παρθένος, Laconian dialect παρσένος [Refs 5th c.BC+]. ἡ, maiden, girl, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί my unhappy girls, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. κόρα, of the Sphinx, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θυγάτηρ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Persephone, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; virgin, opposed to γυνή, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
2. of unmarried women who are not virgins, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
3. Παρθένος, ἡ, the Virgin Goddess, as a title of Athena at Athens, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] (hence of an Attic dialect coin bearing her head, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Artemis, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Tauric Iphigenia, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of an unnamed goddess, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ ἱεραὶ π., of the Vestal Virgins, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; αἱ Ἑστιάδες π. [Refs]; simply, αἱ π. [Refs 1st c.BC+]
4. the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+]
5. ={κόρη} [Refs]pupil, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. as adjective, maiden, chaste, παρθένον ψυχὴν ἔχων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μίτρη π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. as masculine, παρθένος, ὁ, unmarried man, [NT]
IV. π. γῆ Samian earth [Refs]