yona · dove

What it means

yona (יוֹנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dove”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A gentle bird that flies out and returns to the place it came from.
2. A young pigeon for sacrifice.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dove ×15
• pigeons ×9
• like doves ×4
• are doves ×2
• doves ×1
• pigeon ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Leviticus×9
• Numbers×1
• Psalms×3
• Song of Songs×6
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×2
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 8:8

  And he sent out the dove from him to see whether the waters had decreased from the face of the ground.

• Genesis 8:9

  But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. And he reached out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.

• Genesis 8:10

  And he waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

• Genesis 8:11

  And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.

• Genesis 8:12

  And he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.

• Leviticus 1:14

  And if his offering to YHWH is a burnt offering from the birds, he shall present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons.

• Leviticus 5:7

  And if his means do not reach enough for a lamb, he shall bring as his guilt offering for what he has sinned two turtledoves or two young pigeons to YHWH, one as a sin offering and one as a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 5:11

  But if his means do not reach to two turtledoves or to two young pigeons, he shall bring, as his offering for what he has sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 12:6

  When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.

• Leviticus 12:8

  And if her means do not suffice for a lamb, she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering; and the priest shall make expiation for her, and she will be clean.”

• Leviticus 14:22

  and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as his means reach; one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 14:30

  He shall offer one of the turtledoves or of the young pigeons, such as his means reach,

• Leviticus 15:14

  And on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before YHWH to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.

• Leviticus 15:29

  And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 6:10

  And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Psalms 55:6

  And I say, “Oh that I had wings like the dove! I would fly away and settle;

• Psalms 56:1

  For the director. On The Silent Dove of the Distant Ones. Of David. A Miktam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Show me favor, Elohim, for a mortal tramples me; all the day fighting, he oppresses me.

• Psalms 68:13

  Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with greenish gold.”

• Song of Songs 1:15

  Look, you are beautiful, my companion; look, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.

• Song of Songs 2:14

  My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding place of the steep slope, let me see your form, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your form lovely.

• Song of Songs 4:1

  Look, you are beautiful, my companion; look, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that ripple down from Mount Gilead.

• Song of Songs 5:2

  I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew, my curls with the drops of the night.”

• Song of Songs 5:12

  His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathing in milk, sitting beside the abundance.

• Song of Songs 6:9

  Unique is she, my dove, my perfect one, unique is she to her mother, pure is she to the one who bore her. The girls saw her and called her happy, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

• Isaiah 38:14

  Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped; I moaned like the dove; my eyes grew weak looking on high. Adonai, oppression is on me; be surety for me.

• Isaiah 59:11

  We growl like bears, all of us, and like doves we keep moaning; we wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

• Isaiah 60:8

  Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

• Jeremiah 48:28

  Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, inhabitants of Moab! And be like the dove that nests on the sides of the mouth of the pit.

• Ezekiel 7:16

  And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his iniquity.

• Hosea 7:11

  And Ephraim has become like a dove, simple, without heart; to Egypt they call, to Assyria they go.

• Hosea 11:11

  They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt, and like a dove from the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses, declares YHWH.

• Nahum 2:7

  And it is decided: she is stripped, she is carried up, and her slave women moan like the sound of doves, beating on their hearts.