‘And the young woman was very fair to look at, a virgin, nor had any man known her. And she went down to the spring and filled her pitcher, and came back up. And the servant ran to meet her and said, “Give me to drink, I beg you, a little water from your pitcher.” '
The family of Terah appears to have produced beauties, although the description may have been partly polite.
“A virgin, nor had any man known her.” The description is interesting. The qualification seen as necessary suggests that the term for ‘virgin' (bethulah) did not necessarily mean the same as we would mean today. Clearly a woman could be a bethulah and yet have had sexual experience. It means therefore a well behaved young woman of an age for sexual activity without any comment about her sexual experience or status. Thus the writer qualifies the word to exclude that as well. (In Leviticus 21:14 it excludes widows and divorcees and sacred prostitutes).
The steward moves quickly to intercept her as she come up from the spring and asks for a drink. But in his heart is an anticipatory excitement as he waits for how the woman will respond.