neanis

As is well known, this Greek text renders the word with the technical word for virgin, parthenos, not with what one would expect, neanis -- young maid, the Greek word which is deliberately put in place here in the ancient Greek versions of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2 1991

Aquila and Theodotion were at one in substituting neanis for parthenos in Isaiah 7: 14, and the Ebionites found support in this for their declaration that Jesus was the son of Joseph.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, in the second century of our era (apparently in order to vitiate the Christian appeal to this passage), translated the word neanis.

The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge 1891

The severely literal Aquila renders the Hebrew word [Greek: neanis].

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

Theodotion; with the two former translators he substituted [Greek: neanis] for [Greek: parthenos] in the famous prophecy of Isaiah, (c.vii. v. 14,) and in that of Jacob, (Gen. xlix.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler