{"id":956,"date":"2025-01-18T01:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T01:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=956"},"modified":"2025-01-18T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:37:40","slug":"a-virgin-shall-conceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/01\/18\/a-virgin-shall-conceive\/","title":{"rendered":"A Virgin Shall Conceive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the KJV:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/isa\/7\/14\/s_686014\">Isaiah 7:14<\/a> Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a <strong>virgin<\/strong> shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hebrew word translated &#8220;virgin&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-18-1024x100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-18-1024x100.png 1024w, https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-18-300x29.png 300w, https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-18-768x75.png 768w, https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-18.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note on &#8216;alm\u00e2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There is no instance where it can be proved that &#8216;alm\u00e2 designates a young woman who is not a virgin. The fact of virginity is obvious in Gen 24:43 where &#8216;alm\u00e2 is used of one who was being sought as a bride for Isaac.&#8221; (R. Laird Harris, et al. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, p. 672.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Greek LXX:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/lxx\/isa\/7\/14\/s_686014\">Isaiah 7:14<\/a> \u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03bf \u03b4\u1f7d\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9 \u03ba\u1f7b\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f51\u03bc\u1fd6\u03bd \u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd \u1f30\u03b4\u03bf\u1f7a \u1f21 <strong>\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b8\u1f73\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2<\/strong> \u1f10\u03bd \u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u1f76 \u1f15\u03be\u03b5\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f73\u03be\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c5\u1f31\u1f79\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u1f73\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f78 \u1f44\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u0395\u03bc\u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03b7\u03bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the KJV: Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Hebrew word translated &#8220;virgin&#8221;. Note on &#8216;alm\u00e2: &#8220;There is no instance where it can be proved that &#8216;alm\u00e2 designates a young woman who is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-theotokos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}