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Lexicon :: Strong's G4058 - peristera

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περιστερά
Transliteration
peristera (Key)
Pronunciation
per-is-ter-ah'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:63,830

Strong’s Definitions

περιστερά peristerá, per-is-ter-ah'; of uncertain derivation; a pigeon:—dove, pigeon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G4058 in the following manner: dove (9x), pigeon (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G4058 in the following manner: dove (9x), pigeon (1x).

  1. a dove

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
περιστερά peristerá, per-is-ter-ah'; of uncertain derivation; a pigeon:—dove, pigeon.
STRONGS G4058:
περιστερά, περιστεράς, ἡ, Hebrew יונָה, a dove: Matthew 3:16; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 21:12; Mark 1:10; Mark 11:15; Luke 2:24; Luke 3:22; John 1:32; John 2:14, 16. (From Herodotus down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
3:16; 10:16; 21:12
Mark
1:10; 11:15
Luke
2:24; 3:22
John
1:32; 2:14; 2:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4058 matches the Greek περιστερά (peristera),
which occurs 35 times in 35 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - “If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - “But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons,[fn] one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah[fn] of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 - “And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons,[fn] one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22 - also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:30 - And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab[fn] of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:6 - And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:13 - though you men lie among the sheepfolds—
the wings of a dove covered with silver,
its pinions with shimmering gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:15 - He
Behold, you are beautiful, my love;
behold, you are beautiful;
your eyes are doves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10 - My beloved speaks and says to me:
“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 - The fig tree ripens its figs,
and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the crannies of the cliff,
let me see your face,
let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:1 - He
Behold, you are beautiful, my love,
behold, you are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 - She
I slept, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved is knocking.
“Open to me, my sister, my love,
my dove, my perfect one,
for my head is wet with dew,
my locks with the drops of the night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 - His eyes are like doves
beside streams of water,
bathed in milk,
sitting beside a full pool.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 - My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,
the only one of her mother,
pure to her who bore her.
The young women saw her and called her blessed;
the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears;
we moan and moan like doves;
we hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 - Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and like doves to their windows?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - Ephraim is like a dove,
silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt,
and like doves from the land of Assyria,
and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - its mistress[fn] is stripped;[fn] she is carried off,
her slave girls lamenting,
moaning like doves
and beating their breasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1 - Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
the oppressing city!
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