Word

תּוֹר

tôwr · H8449 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences

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Thing

Dove, pigeonBirds47 verses

Meanings

dove or pigeon

A blue-gray bird with a pinkish sheen on its neck, Columba livia, living in colonies, used as food and for sacrifices, and regarded as swift, docile, and innocent but also silly and senseless, and associated with affection and fertility

Examples
Genesis 15:9 So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Leviticus 1:14 ‘But if his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering from the turtledoves or from young doves.
Leviticus 5:7 ‘But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young doves, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

How it’s used In 6 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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ךָyour 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

7 occurrences in 2 groups

שְׁנַיִםtwo 7
נָשַׂגto overtake, to catch up with, to afford 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 1

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 4
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 2
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word

τρυγών trygṓn · G5167 · dove, pigeon: Greek τρυγών is the direct LXX translation equivalent of Hebrew תּוֹר, both denoting the turtle-dove as a ritually clean bird used in sacrificial contexts.

Semantic domains 5 entries

Birds001001002005: This noun denotes a turtledove, as in Genesis 15:9's account of the birds God instructed Abram to bring for the covenant ceremony.
Happen002002003003: תּוֹר (tôwr, H8449) is a common noun meaning "turtledove." The quotation "a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering" at Leviticus 12:6 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Happen" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תּוֹר (tôwr, H8447), תּוֹר (tôwr, H8448), and תּוֹר (tôwr, H8450) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Jewellery001003001001011: תּוֹר (tôwr, H8449) is a common noun meaning "turtledove." The quotation "a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering" at Leviticus 12:6 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Jewellery" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תּוֹר (tôwr, H8447), תּוֹר (tôwr, H8448), and תּוֹר (tôwr, H8450) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Great002001002012: תּוֹר (tôwr, H8449) is a common noun meaning "turtledove." The quotation "a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering" at Leviticus 12:6 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Great" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תּוֹר (tôwr, H8447), תּוֹר (tôwr, H8448), and תּוֹר (tôwr, H8450) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Domestic Animals001001002002: The noun also denotes a turtledove offered as a sacrificial bird, as in Leviticus 1:14's instruction to bring turtledoves or young doves as a burnt offering.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8449. tor II. תּוֺר תֹּר, noun feminineLev 5:7 (masculineLev 14:30) turtle-dove…

H8449. tor
II. תּוֺר תֹּר, noun feminineLev 5:7 (masculineLev 14:30) turtle-dove (onomatopoetic); — absolute תֹּר Gen 15:9 (J; + גּוֺזָל), Jer 8:7 (as migratory); as sacrificial offering (RSSemitic i. 202; 2nd ed. 219, 294) [usually יוֺנָה (בְּנֵי) בֶּן] Lev 1:14; Lev 5:7, Lev 5:11; Lev 12:6, Lev 12:8; Lev 14:22, Lev 14:30; Lev 15:14, Lev 15:29; Num 6:10 (all P; compare also Gen 15:9); הַתּוֺר קוֺל Son 2:12; suffix תּוֺרֶ֑ךָ Psa 74:19 (figurative of ׳י's people). — See TristrNHB 201 ff. Shiply-CookEncy. Bib. Dove PostHast. DB TURTLE-DOVE. — 1. תֹּר see I. תּוֺר.

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

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