Lexical Summary yonah: dove Original Word: יוֹנָהTransliteration: yonah Phonetic Spelling: (yo-naw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: dove Meaning: a dove Strong's Concordance dove, pigeon Probably from the same as yayin; a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating) -- dove, pigeon. see HEBREW yayin Brown-Driver-Briggs H3123. yonah I. יוֺנָה noun feminine dove (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., ) — absolute יוֺנָה Genesis 8:8 20t.; construct יוֺנֵת Psalm 56:1; suffix יוֺנָתִי Song of Solomon 2:14 2t.; plural יוֺנִים Nahum 2:8 6t.; construct יוֺנֵי Ezekiel 7:16 (see below); — dove Genesis 8:8-9, 10, 11, 12 (all J); often of offerings, בֶּןיֿוֺנָה Leviticus 12:6 (P; an individual of the species; "" תֹּר); (ה)יוֺנִים בְּנֵי "" תֹּרִיםׅ 1:14; 5:7, 11; 12:8; 14:22, 30; 15:14, 29; Numbers 6:10 (all P); יוֺנִים חֲרִי dove's dung 2 Kings 6:25 (Kt, yet see GeiUrschrift 409); in various similes: Ephraim is מּוֺתָה כְּיוֺנָה like a silly dove Hosea 7:11 (allowing itself to be snared); simile of return of exiles, like eager flight of doves 11:11, of ships with white outspread sails Isaiah 60:8; כַּיּוֺנָה אֵבֶר Psalm 55:7; see also יוֺנָה כַּנְפֵי 68:14; simile of fugitive Moab Jeremiah 48:28; also הַגֵּאָיוֺת כְּיוֺנֵי Ezekiel 7:16 like the doves of the valleys (but on text see Co, who emends הוֺגִיּוֺת כיונים, but regards phrase as gloss): simile of mourning יוֺנִים כְּקוֺל Nahum 2:8; without כיונים הגה קוֺל, Isaiah 38:14; 59:11 (from mournful note); figurative of beauty (only Canticles): יוֺנִים עֵינַיִךְ thine eyes are (those of) doves Song of Solomon 1:15; 4:1, see also 4:12; term of endearment, יוֺנָתִי my dove 2:14; 5:2; 6:9. Elsewhere only Psalm 56:1 (title) רְחֹקִים אֵלֶם יוֺנַת (עַל) probably name of melody: To 'the dove of distant terebinths' (read אֵלִים for אֵלֶם; see אֵלֶם above, and BaePsalms, p. xvii). — On sanctity of dove among Shemites, see RSSemitic i. 202, 275. |
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