'Virgins' in the Bible
See here, I have two daughters who have not known a man [intimately]; please let me bring them out to you [instead], and you can do as you please with them; only do nothing to these men, because they have in fact come under the shelter of my roof [for protection].”
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must [still] pay money equivalent to the dowry of virgins.
and 32,000 persons in all, of the [Midianite] women who were virgins.
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known a man intimately; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Then the king’s attendants, who served him, said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
Let the king appoint administrators in all the provinces of his kingdom, and have them gather all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel in Susa, into the harem, under the custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let their beauty preparations be given to them.
She will be brought to the King in embroidered garments;The virgins, her companions who follow her,Will be brought to You.
The fire [of war] devoured His young men,And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.
“There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,And maidens without number;
Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”
They ravished the women in Zion,The virgins in the cities of Judah.
And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman; but they shall marry virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who was previously married to a priest.
“In that day the beautiful virginsAnd [even the vigorous] young men shall faint from thirst.
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
Then all those virgins got up and put their own lamps in order [trimmed the wicks and added oil and lit them].
Later the others also came, and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open [the door] for us.’
Now concerning the virgins [of marriageable age] I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
These are the ones who have not been defiled [by relations] with women, for they are celibate. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased and redeemed from among men [of Israel] as the first fruits [sanctified and set apart for special service] for God and the Lamb.