The Dove
18 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- (In Its Flight) of the Return of Israel from Captivity
- Characterised by Comeliness of Countenance
- Characterised by Richness of Plumage
- Characterised by Simplicity
- Characterised by Softness of Eyes
- Characterised by Sweetness of Voice
- Clean and Used As Food
- Dwells in Rocks
- Frequents Streams and Rivers
- Impiously Sold in the Court of the Temple
- Mournful Tabering of, Alluded To
- Offered in Sacrifice
- Sent from the Ark by Noah
- The Harbinger of Spring
- Why Considered the Emblem of Peace
(In Its Flight) of the Return of Israel from Captivity
- Hosea 11:11 They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.
Characterised by Comeliness of Countenance
- Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
Characterised by Richness of Plumage
- Psalm 68:13 Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
Characterised by Simplicity
- Matthew 10:16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Characterised by Softness of Eyes
- Song of Solomon 1:15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
Characterised by Sweetness of Voice
- Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
Clean and Used As Food
- Deuteronomy 14:11 You may eat any clean bird,
Dwells in Rocks
- Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
- Jeremiah 48:28 Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
Frequents Streams and Rivers
- Song of Solomon 5:12 His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
Impiously Sold in the Court of the Temple
- Matthew 21:12 Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.
- John 2:16 To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
Mournful Tabering of, Alluded To
- Nahum 2:7 It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Offered in Sacrifice
- Genesis 15:9 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- Leviticus 1:14 If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
Sent from the Ark by Noah
- Genesis 8:8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
- Genesis 8:10 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
- Genesis 8:12 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
The Harbinger of Spring
- Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
Why Considered the Emblem of Peace
- Genesis 8:11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Related topics
The Dove of MournersThe Dove of the ChurchThe Dove of the Holy SpiritThe Dove of Converts to the ChurchThe Dove of the Meekness of ChristTurtle Dove
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.