Dove

1. Dove, pigeon

• a dove 9
• the dove 7
• doves 3
• like dove 2
• dove my 2
• and like doves 2
• like a dove 2
• o dove my 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Leviticus 9
• Song of Solomon 6
• Genesis 5
• Isaiah 3
• Psalms 2
• Hosea 2

10 books in all.

• Turtledove (tor)
• Dove (peristera)
• Dove (trugōn)
• Dove on Far-off Terebinths (yonat elem rechoqim)

• Genesis 8:9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
• Genesis 8:10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
• Genesis 8:11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
• Genesis 8:12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
• Leviticus 1:14And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
• Leviticus 5:7And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “dove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.