Almah
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almah-182-12715898
title:
Almah
text:
Almah, from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage. Despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Marvin Alan Sweeney states that scholars agree that it refers to a woman of childbearing age but that it has nothing to do with whether she is a virgin or not. H.G.M. Williamson states that that precise etymology remains unclear, and that there is widespread agreement that almah may refer to a vir
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Hebrew word
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almah
date created:
2006-06-12T02:52:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T10:35:14Z
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13
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