Genesis 8:8
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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Dove
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John 1:32
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
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יוֹנָה
yôwnâh · yo-naw'
14 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating)
Strong's KJV usage: dove, pigeon.
Strong's first: Genesis 8:8Strong's last: Hosea 11:11
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peristerá · per-is-ter-ah'
4 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
a pigeon
Strong's KJV usage: :--dove, pigeon.
Strong's first: Matthew 3:16Strong's last: John 1:32
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Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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But 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.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
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And 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.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
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And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
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Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
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O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
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My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
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Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
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Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
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And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
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And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
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And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
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And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
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dove
DOVE, noun [G.]
1. The oenas, or domestic pigeon, a species of Columba. Its color is a deep bluish ash color; the breast is dashed with a fine changeable green and purple; the sides of the neck, with a copper color. In a wild state, it builds its nest in holes of rocks or in hollow trees, but it is easily domesticated, and forms one of the luxuries of the table.
2. A word of endearment, or an emblem of innocence. Song of Solomon 2:14.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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