Isaiah 7:14 is a verse in the seventh chapter of the Book of Isaiah in which the prophet Isaiah, addressing king Ahaz of Judah, promises that God will destroy the king's enemies before a child born to an almah is weaned. According to most modern scholars, the Hebrew word עַלְמָה ‘almāh means a "young woman of childbearing age", but it was translated into Koine Greek in the pre-Christian Septuagint as παρθένος parthenos, meaning virgin, and was subsequently picked up by the gospel of Matthew and used as a messianic prophecy of the Virgin birth of Jesus.[1] Isaiah 7:14 continues to be one of the most controversial Bible verses.[2]