be.tu.lim denotes virgin status, treated in Scripture as a matter of marriage, legal inquiry, bodily imagery, and lament.

The attested uses consistently concern virgin status: it is brought forward in a legal dispute, required in taking a wife, named in sexualized bodily imagery, and mourned by the daughter in Judges.

1. Virgin status in personal and legal contexts · dominant

   In Deuteronomy 22:15 and Deuteronomy 22:17, construct and absolute noun forms occur in the father's response to an accusation, where the APB renders the clause with “the virginity of the maiden” and “the signs of my daughter's virginity.” In Leviticus 21:13 the construct form occurs in the requirement that a wife be a virgin; in Judges 11:37 the daughter asks to weep over this status. Ezekiel 23:3 and Ezekiel 23:8 place construct forms in clauses about the “breasts of their virginity” and “the breasts of her virginity.”

   Deuteronomy 22:15Deuteronomy 22:17Leviticus 21:13Judges 11:37Ezekiel 23:3Ezekiel 23:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “virginity,” including “the virginity of the maiden” and “my daughter's virginity,” while Leviticus 21:13 uses “a virgin.” In Ezekiel 23:3 and Ezekiel 23:8 it renders the surrounding imagery as “breasts of... virginity”; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.