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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - The LORD said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove 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 from the birds, he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - "'If he cannot afford an animal from the flock, he must bring his penalty for guilt for his sin that he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, to the LORD, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - "'If he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 - "'When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - If she cannot afford a sheep, then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22 - and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will 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 - "He will then make one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - Then on the eighth day he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he is to present himself before the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent and give them to the priest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - Samaria's food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey's head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove's droppings for five shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:6 - I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:13 - When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:15 - Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves! The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10 - My lover spoke to me, saying: "Arise, my darling; My beautiful one, come away with me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 - The fig tree has budded, the vines have blossomed and give off their fragrance. Arise, come away my darling; my beautiful one, come away with me!" The Lover to His Beloved:

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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 hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:1 - Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 - I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved: "Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night." The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 - His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 - But she is unique! My dove, my perfect one! She is the special daughter of her mother, she is the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and complimented her; the queens and concubines praised her:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, 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 who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes," declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1 - The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!
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