noun · feminine
trugōnas
Strong’sG5167
a turtle-dove
stem trugōn-once in the New Testament1 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.
τρυγών, -όνος, ἡ
(< τρύζω, to murmur, coo), [in LXX for תּוֹר, תֹּר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5167 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtroo-gone'
akin to G5149, but denoting a duller sound); a turtle-dove (as cooing)
Fromfrom τρύζω (to murmur;
King Jamesturtle-dove.
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
(τρύζω) turtle-dove, Columba turtur, NT+5th c.BC+; περιστεραὶ τρυγόνες Aristeas 145: proverbial of a great talker, τρυγόνος λαλίστερος Refs 4th c.BC+; πονηρὰ κατὰ τρυγόνα ψάλλεις, ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπιπόνως ζώντων, Refs 4th c.AD+
II a kind of fish, the sting-ray, τρυγόνες ὀπισθόκεντροι Refs 5th c.BC+; compare τρυγόνιος.
III an oviparous quadruped of uncertain kind, Refs 4th c.BC+
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 | trugōnas | trugōnais |
| object accusative | trugōnan | trugōnain |
| direct address vocative | trugōnar | trugōnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | trugōnau | trugōnaiu1×τρυγόνων |
| to, for dative | trugōna | trugōnai |
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
trugōna 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
trugōnaiu“turtledoves”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 2:24… legorēntem en to nomo kuriou, zeugem trugōnaiu ē duo nossoin peristeraiu.… of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”