Why is abstinence is important for Rivkah but not other foremothers or other Toranic female figures?

Question

וְהַנַּעֲרָ טֹבַת מַרְאֶה מְאֹד בְּתוּלָה וְאִישׁ לֹא יְדָעָהּ ...׃ - The maiden was very beautiful, a virgin whom no man had known. Genesis.24.16

Why is the fact of sexual abstinence is important for Rivkah but not other foremothers or other Toranic female figures?

(Sorry, I intended to ask first, "What other women were mentioned in the Torah to be virgin?", please comment if needed).

Answer 1

The Midrash Rabbah 60:5 brings a few reasons:

אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן לֹא נִבְעֲלָה אִשָּׁה מִמָּהוּל לִשְׁמוֹנָה תְּחִלָּה אֶלָּא רִבְקָה. אָמַר רֵישׁ לָקִישׁ לְפִי שֶׁבְּנוֹתָן שֶׁל עוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים מְשַׁמְּרוֹת עַצְמָן מִמְּקוֹם עֶרְוָתָן וּמַפְקִירוֹת עַצְמָן מִמָּקוֹם אַחֵר, אֲבָל זֹאת בְּתוּלָה מִמְּקוֹם בְּתוּלִים, וְאִישׁ לֹא יְדָעָהּ, מִמָּקוֹם אַחֵר. אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן מִמַּשְׁמַע שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בְּתוּלָה, אֵין אָנוּ יוֹדְעִים וְאִישׁ לֹא יְדָעָהּ, אֶלָּא אֲפִלּוּ אָדָם לֹא תָבַע בָּהּ, עַל שֵׁם (תהלים קכה, ג): לֹא יָנוּחַ שֵׁבֶט הָרֶשַׁע וגו'.

Rabbi Yochanan said no woman had engaged in intimacy with someone who had been circumcised from eight days other than Rivkah. Reish Lokish said, since the daughters of idol worshippers guard themselves from nakedness and abandonment from another place but this virginity (i.e. that of Rivkah's) was purely from a place of virginity (i.e. and not of any pagan ritual). "And no man had known" - i.e. from another a place. Rabbi Yochanan said it is implied from the fact that it says that she is a virgin that we do not know and no man knew, even no man had a 'claim' on her like it says (Psalms 125:3) "The sceptre of the wicked shall never rest etc."...

So we see three reasons for this calling out of Rivkah's virginity:

1. She was the first to be with someone who had received Milah at the correct time.
2. Her virginity was due to her absolute pure character and nothing like the pagan practises at the time.
3. "No man had known" means that no one had even asked for her, as the passuk in Tehillim implies that the righteous are protected from the wicked.