Turtle Dove
17 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
13 sections
- Burnt offering of
- Domesticated
- Harmlessness of, Typical of Christ's Gentleness
- Market For, in the Temple
- Nests of
- Prescribed for Purification of Lepers
- Prescribed for Purification of Nazarites
- Prescribed for Purification of Women
- Sacrificial Uses of
- Sent out from the Ark by Noah
- Sin offering, for Those Who Touched Any Dead Body
- Symbolical of the Holy Spirit
- Trespass offering of, for the Impecunious
Burnt offering of
- Leviticus 1:14–17 If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon. …
Domesticated
- Isaiah 60:8 Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
Harmlessness of, Typical of Christ's Gentleness
- Matthew 10:16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Market For, in 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 2:14 In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
Nests of
- 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.
Prescribed for Purification of Lepers
- Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
Prescribed for Purification of Nazarites
- Numbers 6:10 On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Prescribed for Purification of Women
- Leviticus 12:6 When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for …
- Leviticus 12:8 But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
- Luke 2:24 and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”
Sacrificial Uses of
- 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.”
Sent out from the Ark by Noah
- Genesis 8:8–11 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. …
Sin offering, for Those Who Touched Any Dead Body
- Numbers 6:10 On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Symbolical of the Holy Spirit
- Matthew 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
- Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
- John 1:32 Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.
Trespass offering of, for the Impecunious
- Leviticus 5:7–10 If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons — one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. …
- Leviticus 12:8 But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
Related topics
Pigeon used As SacrificeThe DoveThe Dove of the Holy SpiritVision of John the BaptistTrespass offering
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.