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Genesis 8:8 הַיּוֹנָ֖ה the dove

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

Genesis 8:9 הַיּוֹנָ֨ה the dove

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

Genesis 8:10 הַיּוֹנָ֖ה the dove

Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:11 הַיּוֹנָה֙ the dove

And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 8:12 הַיּוֹנָ֔ה the dove

And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

Here: "The dove." It is the same bird already sent twice, so it has the definite article ("the"). The noun is feminine, which is why the following verb is feminine ("she").

Leviticus 1:14 הַיּוֹנָ֖ה the dove

If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.

Leviticus 5:7 יוֹנָ֖ה a dove

If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

Here: The rock dove or domestic pigeon, often kept in dovecotes (compare Isa 60:8). Hebrew has one word for what English splits into 'dove' and 'pigeon'.

Leviticus 5:11 יוֹנָה֒ a dove

But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 12:6 יוֹנָ֥ה a dove

When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

Leviticus 12:8 יוֹנָ֔ה a dove

But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

Here: The rock dove or pigeon. It nested in cliffs and dovecotes and was common all year. 'Young pigeons' are fledglings, the cheapest and most available sacrificial animal.

Leviticus 14:22 יוֹנָ֔ה a dove

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

Here: The rock dove, the same species as the domestic pigeon. These birds were kept near homes and were easy and cheap to get all year round.

Leviticus 14:30 הַיּוֹנָ֑ה the dove

Then he must sacrifice the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford,

Leviticus 15:14 יוֹנָ֑ה a dove

On the eighth day he is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.

Leviticus 15:29 יוֹנָ֑ה a dove

On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 6:10 יוֹנָ֑ה a dove

On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Psalm 55:6 כַּיּוֹנָ֗ה like <the> dove

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

Psalm 68:13 י֭וֹנָה a dove

Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

Here: 'A dove': indefinite in Hebrew, not 'the dove'. In Israel this is the common rock dove or turtledove. Elsewhere in poetry it can stand for Israel itself (Ps 74:19; Hos 7:11; 11:11). Here it may be the bird, a picture of Israel, or a precious dove-shaped object taken as plunder.

Song of Songs 1:15 יוֹנִֽים׃ [are] doves

How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

Here: The Hebrew does not say 'like doves' or 'doves' eyes'. It says 'your eyes: doves', a direct metaphor with no comparison word. The poet leaves it to the hearer to see how her eyes are doves: their soft sheen, their shape, their quick movement, or doves as birds linked with love.

Song of Songs 2:14 יוֹנָתִ֞י O dove my

O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.

Here: "My dove": a pet name for the woman (also 5:2; 6:9). The picture is the wild rock dove, a shy bird that nests high in cliff crevices where nobody can reach it.

Song of Songs 4:1 יוֹנִ֔ים [are] doves

How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Here: 'Doves.' There is no 'like' and no 'of': her eyes *are* doves. It is a picture of something living that moves, flutters, and is soft and lovely, not a statement about the shape of her eyes.

Song of Songs 5:2 יוֹנָתִ֣י dove my

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Here: A pet name. The dove stood for gentleness, beauty, soft cooing and shy hiding (2:14), and in the ancient Near East it was linked with love.

Song of Songs 5:12 כְּיוֹנִ֖ים [are] like doves

His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

Song of Songs 6:9 יוֹנָתִ֣י dove my

but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.

Here: A pet name the man uses for the woman across the Song (2:14; 5:2). It suggests gentleness, beauty and soft eyes, and in that world doves were also a familiar image of love.

Isaiah 38:14 כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה like <the> dove

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Here: The dove's low, sad cooing was a standard picture of grief in Israel (Isa 59:11; Ezek 7:16; Nah 2:7). 'The dove' means the dove as everyone knows it.

Isaiah 59:11 וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים and like <the> doves

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Here: The dove's low, repeating call was a stock image of lament in Israel (Isaiah 38:14; Ezekiel 7:16; Nahum 2:7). Here it stands for grief, not the gentleness or peace English readers tend to associate with doves.

Isaiah 60:8 וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים and like <the> doves

Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

Jeremiah 48:28 כְיוֹנָ֔ה like a dove

Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.

Ezekiel 7:16 כְּיוֹנֵ֧י like [the] doves of

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Here: Doves stood for helplessness and for a low, mournful cooing that sounded like moaning. The refugees are pictured as frightened birds.

Hosea 7:11 כְּיוֹנָ֥ה like a dove

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

Here: A common, harmless, easily startled bird that fowlers trapped easily. The picture is of a bird fluttering back and forth with no sense of danger, which sets up the net in v.12.

Hosea 11:11 וּכְיוֹנָ֖ה and like a dove

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.

Nahum 2:7 יוֹנִ֔ים doves

It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

Here: In Hebrew poetry the dove's low, repeated call is the standard sound of grief (Isa 38:14; 59:11; Ezek 7:16). It is a mourning sound here, not a picture of peace.