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Leviticus 21

Lev. 21:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he shall take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
a wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
k in her virginity
bthuwliym (Hebrew #1331)
(collectively and abstractly) virginity; by implication and concretely, the tokens of it
KJV usage: X maid, virginity.
Pronounce: beth-oo-leem'
Origin: masculine plural of the same as 1330
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Lev. 21:7• 7They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God. (Lev. 21:7)

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Virgin; Virginity,
Wife

Cross References

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Lev. 21:7• 7They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God. (Lev. 21:7)
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Ezek. 44:22• 22And they shall not take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest. (Ezek. 44:22)
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2 Cor. 11:2• 2For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2)
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Rev. 14:4• 4These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever it goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb: (Rev. 14:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.