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title: תֹּור — turtle-dove · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֹּור (8449), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: turtle-dove. BDB 1906: n.f. turtle-dove. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֹּור

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«תֹּור» in the Tanakh dictionary: **turtle-dove** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 8449 · **BDB:** תֹּר

### Glosses

turtle-doves (9); a.turtle-dove (3); the.turtle-dove (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

turtle-dove [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8449/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. turtle-dove [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8449/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Lv 5:7 (m. Lv 14:30) turtle-dove (onomatop.);—abs. תֹּר Gn 15:9 (J; + גּוֹזָל), Je 8:7 (as migratory); as sacrif. offering (RSSem. i. 202; 2nd ed. 219, 294) \[usually יוֹנָה (בְּנֵי) בֶּן\] Lv 1:14; 5:7, 11; 12:6, 8; 14:22, 30; 15:14, 29; Nu 6:10 (all P; cf.also Gn 15:9); קוֹל הַתּוֹר Ct 2:12; sf. תּוֹרֶ֑ךָ ψ 74:19 (fig. of י׳’s people).—Vid. TristrNHB 201 ff. Shipley-CookEncy. Bib. Dove PostHast. DB Turtle-Dove.—i. תֹּר v. i. תּוֹר.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֹּור» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8449/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 74:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.19/)

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אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן לְ֭חַיַּת נֶ֣פֶשׁ תּוֹרֶ֑ךָ חַיַּ֥ת עֲ֝נִיֶּ֗יךָ אַל־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח לָנֶֽצַח׃

*Word for word:* do.not give to an.animal the.life your.turtle-dove your the.life of your.poor.\[people\] do.not forget to perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.

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[Leviticus 14:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.30/)

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וְעָשָׂ֤ה אֶת־הָֽאֶחָד֙ מִן־הַתֹּרִ֔ים א֖וֹ מִן־בְּנֵ֣י הַיּוֹנָ֑ה מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּשִּׂ֖יג יָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.offer (et) the one of the turtle-doves or of the.young.ones of the.dove from.\[that\] which it.will.reach hand his

*JPS 1917:* And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;

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