יוֹנָה yonah

Hebrew word for “dove” · Strong’s H3123 · used 31 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

dove, pigeon

How it is translated

Glosses given for yonah in context, with how often each is used:

• dove 19
• doves 3
• like doves 3
• like a dove 3
• like dove 2
• like the doves 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 8 (5), Leviticus 5 (2), Leviticus 12 (2), Leviticus 14 (2), Leviticus 15 (2), Song of Solomon 5 (2), Leviticus 1 (1), Numbers 6 (1), Psalms 55 (1), Psalms 68 (1)

Forms

• יונה 9
• היונה 7
• כיונה 4
• יונים 3
• יונתי 3
• וכיונים 2
• כיונים 1
• כיוני 1
• וכיונה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yonah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• תֹּר tor “turtledove” 10
• אוֹ o “or” 10
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 7
• רַעְיָה rayah “darling” 3
• עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 5
• חַטָּאת chattat “sin” 5
• שְׁמִינִי shemini “eighth” 3
• פֶּתַח petach “entrance” 4
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 4
• נָשַׂג nasag “to overtake” 3
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 5
• אֶחָד echad “one” 5

Key verses

The verses using yonah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 5:7 — And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one…
• Leviticus 5:11 — But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour…
• Psalms 68:13 — Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
• Song of Solomon 1:15 — Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
• Song of Solomon 2:14 — O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice,…
• Song of Solomon 4:1 — Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
• Song of Solomon 5:2 — I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled…
• Song of Solomon 6:9 — My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea,…
• Isaiah 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
• Isaiah 59:11 — We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Ezekiel 7:16 — But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
• Hosea 7:11 — Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.