περιστερά
peristerá · G4058 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Thing
- Dove, pigeonBirds47 verses
Meanings
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dove, pigeon
Asiatic Rock dove: bird with a blue-gray color with a pinkish sheen to the neck feathers and a black tip on its tail; lives in large colonies and eats mainly seeds; courts, mates, and has nests several times a year; nests on rock ledges; Columba via; used as food and for sacrifices; regarded as swift, docile, and innocent
ExamplesMatthew 3:16 After He was baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and settling on Him,
Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves.
Matthew 21:12 And Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- πωλέωto sell 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νεοσσόςyoung bird 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- τρυγών trygṓn · G5167 · dove, pigeon
- Both terms denote birds of the dove/pigeon family used in sacrificial offerings. While τρυγών specifically refers to the turtle-dove and περιστερά to the pigeon, they function as interchangeable alternatives within the biblical sacrificial system, representing the same category of acceptable offering for those who could not afford larger animals.
In the other Testament 1 word
- יוֹנָה yôwnâh · H3123 · dove, pigeon
- Hebrew term rendered by this Greek term in LXX translation, denoting the same bird species (dove/pigeon) across both languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dove, pigeon4.44
- περιστερά names the bird used both as a natural image and as a sacrificial offering. All four Gospels record the Spirit's descent at Jesus's baptism in this form: “he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and settling on Him” (Matthew 3:16).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon περιστεράς, ἡ, Hebrew יונָה, a dove: Mt 3:16; Mt 10:16; Mt 21:12; Mk 1:10; Mk 11:15; Lk…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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