Greek noun (feminine) · G4058
περιστερά
peristeraper-is-ter-ah'
dove
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: peristerá
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4058is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4058
a pigeon
The King James renders it: dove, pigeon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
peristera is rendered "dove". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:16As 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.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
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.
Matthew 3:16περιστερὰν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- doves5
- a dove4
- pigeons1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περί | peri | about | Uses332 |
| περιπατέω | peripateo | to walk | Uses94 |
| περισσεύω | perisseuo | to exceed | Uses39 |
| περιτομή | peritome | circumcision | Uses36 |
| περιβάλλω | periballo | to clothe | Uses23 |
| περιτέμνω | peritemno | to circumcise | Uses17 |
| περισσοτέρως | perissoteros | more excessively | Uses12 |
| περισσῶς | perissos | excessively | Uses9 |
| περίχωρος | perichoros | region | Uses9 |
| περισσότερος | perissoteros | more excessive | Uses9 |
| περιτίθημι | peritithemi | to put on | Uses8 |
| περιβλέπω | periblepo | to look around | Uses7 |
and 43 more on the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- περιστερὰν4
- περιστερὰς3
- περιστεραί.¶1
- περιστεράς1
- περιστερῶν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural4N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular4N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1N-GPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
Matthew
three uses
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.
- περιστερὰνperisterannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a dove
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
- περιστεραί.¶peristerainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: doves
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.
- περιστεράςperisterasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: doves
Mark
two uses
As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
- περιστερὰνperisterannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a dove
When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.
- περιστερὰςperisterasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: doves
Luke
two uses
and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”
- περιστερῶν.¶peristeronnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: pigeons
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.”
- περιστερὰνperisterannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a dove
John
three uses
Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.
- περιστερὰνperisterannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a dove
In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
- περιστερὰςperisterasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: doves
To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
- περιστερὰςperisterasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: doves
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.