Dove
A bird symbolizing peace, purity, and the Holy Spirit. Noah released a dove that returned with an olive branch, signaling the flood's end (Genesis 8:8-12). Song of Songs uses dove imagery for the beloved (2:14, 5:2). Jesus instructed his followers to be 'as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves' (Matthew 10:16). Most significantly, at Jesus' baptism 'the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove' (Luke 3:22). This association between the dove and the Spirit is one of Scripture's most enduring images. Psalm 55:6 expresses longing: 'Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.'
Verses about Dove
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בראשית 8:8
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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בראשית 8:9
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: the…
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בראשית 8:10
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
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בראשית 8:11
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off th…
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בראשית 8:12
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
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מלכים ב 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth …
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תהלים 55:6
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
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תהלים 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.
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שיר השירים 1:15
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
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שיר השירים 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 t…
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שיר השירים 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 mou…
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שיר השירים 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 hea…
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שיר השירים 5:12
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
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שיר השירים 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 …
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ישעיהו 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.
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ישעיהו 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.
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ישעיהו 60:8
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
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ירמיהו 48:28
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.
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יחזקאל 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.
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הושע 7:11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.