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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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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