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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 BoxGen 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - So the LORD said to him, “Bring 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 BoxLev 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - “ ‘If the offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a dove or a young pigeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - “ ‘Anyone who cannot afford a lamb is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the LORD as a penalty for their sin—one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - “ ‘If, however, they cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour for a sin offering. They must not put olive oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 - “ ‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, 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 dove for a sin offering.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22 - and two doves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:30 - Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, such as the person can afford,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance to the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - Then on the eighth day they must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels[fn] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[fn] of seed pods[fn] for five shekels.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:6 - I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:13 - Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,[fn] the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:15 - He: How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:10 - My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 - The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - He: My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 - She: I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 - but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 - “Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks, you who live in Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the mouth of a cave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - “Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless— now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - They will come from Egypt, trembling like sparrows, from Assyria, fluttering like doves. I will settle them in their homes,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - It is decreed[fn] that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1 - Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
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