17 occurrences

'Doves' in the Bible

"If his offering is a burnt offering of birds to the LORD, he is to bring turtledoves or young doves.

"If he can't afford a goat, then he is to bring to the LORD for his sin offering two turtledoves or two young doves: one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

"If he can't afford two turtledoves or two young doves, then he is to bring as his offering a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering for what he has committed. He is to put no olive oil or frankincense on it, since it's a sin offering.

If she cannot afford a goat, then two turtledoves or two young doves one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering will serve for him to make atonement for her, so that she becomes clean."

On the eighth day, he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young doves, bring them to the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are doves, your hair is like a flock of goats coming down from Mt. Gilead.

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, bathed in milk, mounted like jewels.

We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it's far from us.

"Who are these that fly like clouds, and like doves to their windows?

Fugitives will escape to the mountains like doves fleeing through the valleys, all of them moaning because of their own iniquity.

It has been determined: The woman is unveiled and sent away, her servant girls mourn. Beating their breasts, they whimper like doves.

When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

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יונה 
Yownah 
Usage: 31

περιστερά 
Peristera 
Usage: 9

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