'Virgins' in the Bible
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him; 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.
The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
When the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
She will be led to the King in embroidered work;The virgins, her companions who follow her,Will be brought to You.
Fire devoured His young men,And His virgins had no wedding songs.
Be ashamed, O Sidon;For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,“I have neither travailed nor given birth,I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”
The roads of Zion are in mourningBecause no one comes to the appointed feasts.All her gates are desolate;Her priests are groaning,Her virgins are afflicted,And she herself is bitter.
“The Lord is righteous;For I have rebelled against His command;Hear now, all peoples,And behold my pain;My virgins and my young menHave gone into captivity.
The elders of the daughter of ZionSit on the ground, they are silent.They have thrown dust on their heads;They have girded themselves with sackcloth.The virgins of JerusalemHave bowed their heads to the ground.
On the ground in the streetsLie young and old;My virgins and my young menHave fallen by the sword.You have slain them in the day of Your anger,You have slaughtered, not sparing.
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 shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
“In that day the beautiful virginsAnd the young men will faint from thirst.
For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs!Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.