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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 a wife that is a whore, or profane; 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 a wife that is a whore, or profane; 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• 22Neither shall they 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 had a priest before. (Ezek. 44:22)
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2 Cor. 11:2• 2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2)
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Rev. 14:4• 4These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto 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.