noun · feminine
peristeras
Strong’sG4058
a dove
stem perister-10 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
περιστερά, -ᾶς, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for יוֹנָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4058 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidper-is-ter-ah'
a pigeon
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesdove, pigeon.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
common pigeon or dove, Refs 5th c.BC+; specifically, Columba livia domestica, and so distinguished from φάψ, φάττα, οἰνάς, τρυγών, Refs 4th c.BC+: περιστερός, ὁ, cock-pigeon, Refs 5th c.BC+ (of a carrier-pigeon), Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | peristeras | peristerais1×περιστεραί |
| object accusative | peristeran4×περιστερὰν | peristerain4×περιστερὰς |
| direct address vocative | peristerar | peristerair |
| of, belonging to genitive | peristerau | peristeraiu1×περιστερῶν |
| to, for dative | peristera | peristerai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
peristera is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
peristeran“dove”objectaccusative singular4×
Matthew 3:16… kai horata pneumem theou katabainarōntem hōsei peristeran erchorōntem epi auton;… Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
Mark 1:10… toin ouranoin kai tem pneumem hōs peristeran katabainarōntem eis auton;… Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
Luke 3:22… pneumem tem hagiem sōmatike eide hōs peristeran epi auton, kai fōnan ek ouranou …… in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven …
John 1:32… hoti Theasomē tem pneumem katabainarōntem hōs peristeran ek ouranou, kai menata epi auton;… Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.
peristerais“doves”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 10:16… tois ofiois kai akeraiois hōs tais peristerais.… as snakes and as innocent as doves.
peristerain“doves”objectaccusative plural4×
Matthew 21:12… kai tain kathedrain toiu pōlarōntoiu tain peristerain,… and the seats of those selling doves.
Mark 11:15… kai tain kathedrain toiu pōlarōntoiu tain peristerain katastrefata… and the seats of those selling doves.
John 2:14… toin pōlarōntoin bouoin kai probateim kai peristerain kai toin kermatistoin kathorōntoin,… found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their …
John 2:16kai toi tain peristerain pōlarōntoi legata; Airavar houteim enteuthen, mē …To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of …
peristeraiu“pigeons”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 2:24… kuriou, zeugem trugōnaiu ē duo nossoin peristeraiu.… pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”