תֹּר
dove
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
13 distinct verses where H8449 appears in the Absolute state, across 5 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Leviticus 9 verses
- Leviticus 1:14 הַ/תֹּרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c bp "'If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
- Leviticus 5:7 תֹרִ֛ים n c bp "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 5:11 תֹרִ֗ים n c bp "'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 12:6 תֹ֖ר n c bs "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
- Leviticus 12:8 תֹרִ֗ים n c bp If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
- Leviticus 14:22 תֹרִ֗ים n c bp and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 14:30 הַ/תֹּרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c bp He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,
- Leviticus 15:14 תֹרִ֔ים n c bp "'On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:
- Leviticus 15:29 תֹרִ֔ים n c bp On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
תור (tôwr) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “dove.” It clusters heavily in Leviticus, which alone accounts for 64% of its uses. It turns up in 14 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 15:9. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “turtledoves” in the King James Version, “doves” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8449 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 79%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 14%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Turtledoves 6×, Turtles 3×, Turtle 2×
- American Standard Version: Turtle-doves 9×, Turtle-dove 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Turtledoves 9×, Turtledove 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Doves 8×, Turtledove 3×, Dove 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8449 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8449 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8449 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8449 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- dove, turtledove
Word origin
תֹּר, תּוֹר n.f. ( m.) turtle-dove
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תור (tôwr) (H8447) — plait.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תּוּר I
- v. טוּר) [to go around; cmp. אָלַל,) to espy. Shebu. 47ᵇ (play on ות̇ר̇ג̇נ̇ו, Deut. I, 27) תַּ֗רְֹתֶּם וג̇ינ̇יתם באהלו וכ׳ you have espied (the land) and found fault with God’s tent; Num. R. s. 1620 תרתם גנות א"י you have espied the faults of the land of Israel; Tanḥ. Sh’laḥ 11. Y. Yoma I, 38ᵇ (play on האתרים, Num. XXI, 1) מת התייר הגדול שהיה תָר להם וכ׳ the great spy (Aaron) is dead who espied for them the road (of life); Y. Sot. I, end, 17ᶜ; Num. R. s. 1920. Lev. R. s. 15; Yalk. ib. 554 את מבקש לצאת לָתוּר פרנסתך thou desirest to go out and espy the means of thy sustenance; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:27
תּוּר II
- (contr. of תער, v. עוּר) to be awake.—V. תִּיר.
- to awaken. B. Kam. 117ᵇ תַּיְּירֵיה אוקמיה he waked him up (from the dead) and made him to stand (live).—[Gitt. 69ᵇ וניתייריה, read: וניתריה, v. תְּרֵי II.]
תּוֹר I
- v. תּוּר I)
- 1. turn, order. — Pl. תּוֹרִים. Cant. R. to I, 10 (ref. to בתורים, ib.) בשעה שקורין … בתוֹרֵיהֶן וכ׳ when they read the words of the Law in their due turn: the Passover laws on Passover &c.
- 2. string, twist. —Pl. as ab. Tosef. Sabb. VIII (IX), 31; Y. ib. VIII, 11ᵇ top; Bab. ib. 90ᵇ תּוֹרֵי דקל strings made of the fibrous bast of the palm, contrad. to צורי דקל, v. צוּר III.
תּוֹר II
- onomatop.) turtle-dove. Kinn. II, 5 האשה … חטאתה ת׳ וכ׳ if a woman brought a turtle-dove for her sin-offering, and a young pigeon for her burnt-offering; a. e.—Pl. תּוֹרִים, תּוֹרִין. Ib. אין מביאין ת׳ כנגד וכ׳ you must not offer turtle-doves in connection with young pigeons, nor young pigeons in connection with turtle-doves (but either the ones or the others). Ḥull. I, 5 כשר בת׳, v. יוֹנָה II. Ib. 22ᵇ; a. fr.
תּוֹר
- = h. שׁוֹר, ox. Targ. Ex. XXI, 28, sq. Targ. Lev. IV, 3; a. fr.—ת׳ בר aurochs (v. תּוֹרְבָּלָא). Targ. Ps. L, 10.—Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXVIII (ref. to וְתר̇, Gen. XV, 9) לא נאמר ת׳ זה בלשון … ת׳ זה השור וכ׳ this tor is not meant in its Biblical (Hebrew) sense (dove), but in its Chaldaic meaning: tor means the ox &c. Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top; Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ bot., v. עַדְרָא; Bab. Snh. 18ᵇ. Nidd. 33ᵇ, v. רְמֵי. Lam. R. to I, 7 (prov.) נפל ת׳ סגין וכ׳ when the ox is felled, its butchers are many (when one is in distress, his enemies increase); נפל ת׳ תחדדון סכינוי (not תחדדן) when the ox is down, sharpen the knives for him; Sabb. 32ᵃ, v. חֲדַד. Ab. Zar. 16ᵃ בר ת׳ a young ox; a. fr.—ראש תור, v. רֹאשׁ.—Pl. תֹּרִין, תּוֹרַיָּא, תּוֹרֵי. Targ. Gen. XXXII, 6. Targ. I Chr. XXI, 23. Targ. Num. XXIX, 13. Targ. Y. Deut. XIV, 5 תורי בר, v. supra; a. fr.—B. Mets. 30ᵃ top; 73ᵃ; Ḥull. 84ᵇ, v. תַּיָּרָא.—Fem. תּוֹרְתָּא cow. Targ. Num. XIX, 2 (O. ed. Vien. תּוֹרְתָא; Y. תּוֹרָתָא, corr. acc.); a. fr.—Pl. תּוֹרָתָא, תּוֹרָן. Targ. I Sam. VI, 7. Targ. Job I, 14 Ms. (ed. תורייא); a. e. e.g. Genesis 15:9
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H8449 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תֹרִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 15:14 | 3 |
| תֹרִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 5:11 | 3 |
| הַ/תּ֖וֹר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 2:12 | 1 |
| הַ/תֹּרִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 14:30 | 1 |
| הַ/תֹּרִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 1:14 | 1 |
| וְ/תֹ֖ר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 15:9 | 1 |
| וְ/תֹ֤ר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 8:7 | 1 |
| תֹ֖ר | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 12:6 | 1 |
| תֹרִ֛ים | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 5:7 | 1 |
| תּוֹרֶ֑/ךָ | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Psalms 74:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8449, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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