Word

יוֹנָה

yôwnâh · H3123 · Hebrew · 32 occurrences

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Thing

Dove, pigeonBirds47 verses

Meanings

dove or pigeon

A blue-gray bird living in colonies, used as food and for sacrifices, regarded as swift, docile, innocent, and silly, and associated with affection, fertility, pain, and suffering

Examples
Genesis 8:8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water was low on the surface of the land;
Genesis 8:9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself.
Genesis 8:10 So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

יmy 3
גַּיְאvalley 1
אֵלֶםsilence 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּתָהto entice, to deceive 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1
אָחוֹתsister 1
תָּםblameless, perfect 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מָצָאto find 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁלַחto send, to send away 3

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 1 groups

עַיִןeye, sight 3

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as 15
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 10
כָּנָףwing 1
קוֹלvoice, sound 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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In the other Testament 1 word

περιστερά peristerá · G4058 · dove, pigeon: Greek περιστερά is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew יוֹנָה, both denoting the same bird species (dove/pigeon) with identical semantic range across literal and figurative uses.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Birds001001002005: יוֹנָה denotes the dove or pigeon, the bird Noah released from the ark to test the receding floodwaters (Genesis 8:8-12) and a common sacrificial offering.
Names of People003001007: This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the common noun for a dove, as in “Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water was low on the surface of the land” (Genesis 8:8). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related personal name יוֹנָה (Yôwnâh, H3124), which it is not independently attested as here.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יוֹנָהyôwnâh · H3123יוֹנַת אֵלֶם רְחֹקִים yôwnath ʼêlem rᵉchôqîym · H3128 · Jonath-elem-rechokim · 0×

Also from the root יוֹנָה

חֲרֵי־יוֹנִים chărêy-yôwnîym · H2755 · pigeon dung · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3123. yonah I. יוֺנָה noun feminine dove (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., ) — absolute…

H3123. yonah
I. יוֺנָה noun feminine dove (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., ) — absolute יוֺנָה Gen 8:8 Gen 8:20t.; construct יוֺנֵת Psa 56:1; suffix יוֺנָתִי Son 2:14 Son 2:2t.; plural יוֺנִים Nah 2:8 Nah 2:6t.; construct יוֺנֵי Eze 7:16 (see below); — dove Gen 8:8-9, Gen 8:10, Gen 8:11, Gen 8:12 (all J); often of offerings, בֶּןיֿוֺנָה Lev 12:6 (P; an individual of the species; || תֹּר); (ה)יוֺנִים בְּנֵי || תֹּרִיםׅ Lev 1:14; Lev 5:7, Lev 5:11; Lev 12:8; Lev 14:22, Lev 14:30; Lev 15:14, Lev 15:29; Num 6:10 (all P); יוֺנִים חֲרִי dove's dung 2Ki 6:25 (Kt, yet see GeiUrschrift 409); in various similes: Ephraim is מּוֺתָה כְּיוֺנָה like a silly dove Hos 7:11 (allowing itself to be snared); simile of return of exiles, like eager flight of doves Hos 11:11, of ships with white outspread sails Isa 60:8; כַּיּוֺנָה אֵבֶר Psa 55:7; see also יוֺנָה כַּנְפֵי Psa 68:14; simile of fugitive Moab Jer 48:28; also הַגֵּאָיוֺת כְּיוֺנֵי Eze 7:16 like the doves of the valleys (but on text see Co, who emends הוֺגִיּוֺת כיונים, but regards phrase as gloss): simile of mourning יוֺנִים כְּקוֺל Nah 2:8; without כיונים הגה קוֺל, Isa 38:14; Isa 59:11 (from mournful note); figurative of beauty (only Canticles): יוֺנִים עֵינַיִךְ thine eyes are (those of) doves Son 1:15; Son 4:1, see also Son 4:12; term of endearment, יוֺנָתִי my dove Son 2:14; Son 5:2; Son 6:9. Elsewhere only Psa 56:1 (title) רְחֹקִים אֵלֶם יוֺנַת (עַל) probably name of melody: To 'the dove of distant terebinths' (read אֵלִים for אֵלֶם; see אֵלֶם above, and BaePsalms, p. xvii). — On sanctity of dove among Shemites, see RSSemitic i. 202, 275.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Birds32 occurrences Names of People0 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0