Hebrew noun · H8449
תּוֹר
tortore
turtledove
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tôwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8449is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8449
a ring-dove, often (figuratively) as a term of endearment
The King James renders it: (turtle) dove.
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
tor is rendered "turtledove". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:9And 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.”
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
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.”
Genesis 15:9וְתֹ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's fourteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- turtle-doves7
- and a turtle-dove2
- the turtle-doves2
- a turtle-dove1
- the turtle-dove1
- turtle-dove your1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תּוֹרָה | torah | instruction | Uses219 |
| תּוֹעֵבַה | toebah | abomination | Uses117 |
| תּוֹלָע | tola | worm | Uses43 |
| תּוֹלְדָה | toledah | generation | Uses39 |
| תּוֹדָה | todah | thanksgiving | Uses31 |
| תּוֹכֵחָה | tokechah | rebuke | Uses28 |
| תּוֹצָאָה | totsaah | outgoing | Uses23 |
| תּוֹשָׁב | toshab | sojourner | Uses14 |
| תּוֹר | tor | bullock | Uses7 |
| תּוֹחֶלֶת | tocheleth | hope | Uses6 |
| תּוֹר | tor | plait | Uses4 |
| תּוֹעָפָה | toaphah | peak | Uses4 |
and 6 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- תֹרִ֗ים3
- תֹרִ֔ים3
- הַתּ֖וֹר1
- הַתֹּרִ֗ים1
- הַתֹּרִ֔ים1
- וְתֹ֖ר1
- וְתֹ֤ר1
- תּוֹרֶ֑ךָ1
- תֹ֖ר1
- תֹרִ֛ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine plural7HNcbpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular2HC/Ncbsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine plural2HTd/Ncbpa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular1HNcbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcbsc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1HTd/Ncbsa
Genesis
one use
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.”
- וְתֹ֖רvetorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and a turtle-dove
Leviticus
nine uses
If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
- הַתֹּרִ֗יםhatorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the turtle-doves
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.
- תֹרִ֛יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
- תֹרִ֗יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
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 a sin offering.
- תֹ֖רtornoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a turtle-dove
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.’”
- תֹרִ֗יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
- תֹרִ֗יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
Then he must sacrifice the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford,
- הַתֹּרִ֔יםhatorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: the turtle-doves
On the eighth day he is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
- תֹרִ֔יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- תֹרִ֔יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
Numbers
one use
On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- תֹרִ֔יםtorimnoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: turtle-doves
Psalms
one use
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- תּוֹרֶ֑ךָtorekhanoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turtle-dove your
Song of Solomon
one use
The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
- הַתּ֖וֹרhatorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: the turtle-dove
Jeremiah
one use
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
- וְתֹ֤רvetorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and a turtle-dove
Where it leads
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.