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Koine Greek wordlink #5893

SR GNT Mat 10:16 περιστεραί (peristerai) ‘innocent as the doves’ Strongs=40580 Lemma=peristera
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=33 AD TimeSeries=3rd_Tour_of_Galilee

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Only use of identical word form περιστεραί (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘περιστεραί’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘doves’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘peristera’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a dove’, ‘of doves’, ‘doves’.

Greek words (5) other than περιστεραί (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘doves’

YHN 2:14 περιστεράς (peristeras) N-AFP ‘and sheep and doves and the money-changers’ SR GNT Yhn 2:14 word 16

OET-LV: 14 And he _found in the temple the ones selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. (JHN_2:14)

OET-RV: 14 There in the temple, he discovered merchants selling cows and sheep and doves, and moneychangers sitting at their tables. (JHN 2:14)

YHN 2:16 περιστεράς (peristeras) N-AFP ‘and to the ones doves selling he said take_away’ SR GNT Yhn 2:16 word 5

OET-LV: 16 And to _the ones selling the doves he _said: Take _away these things from _here, not be _making the house of _the father of _me a_house of _business. (JHN_2:16)

OET-RV: 16 He scolded the ones selling doves, saying, “Get them out of here! Don’t be making my father’s house into a market.” (JHN 2:16)

MARK 11:15 περιστεράς (peristeras) N-AFP ‘of the ones selling the doves he overturned’ SR GNT Mark 11:15 word 45

OET-LV: 15 And they _are _coming to Hierousalaʸm, and having _come _in into the temple, he _began to _be _throwing _out the ones selling and the ones buying in the temple, and the tables of _the moneychangers and he _overturned the seats of _the ones selling the doves. (MRK_11:15)

OET-RV: 15 Then they came back into Yerushalem and on into the temple where Yeshua started driving out the sellers and the buyers that were trading in there. Then he tipped over the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of the ones selling doves, (MRK 11:15)

MAT 21:12 περιστεράς (peristeras) N-AFP ‘of the ones selling the doves’ SR GNT Mat 21:12 word 32

OET-LV: 12 And Yaʸsous came _in into the temple, and he _throw _out all the ones selling and buying in the temple, and he _overturned the tables of _the moneychangers, and the seats of _the ones selling the doves. (MAT_21:12)

OET-RV: 12 Then Yeshua dismounted and entered the temple. He drove out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who were selling doves, (MAT 21:12)

LUKE 2:24 περιστερῶν (peristerōn) N-GFP ‘or two young of doves’ SR GNT Luke 2:24 word 17

OET-LV: 24 and which to _give a_sacrifice, according _to the message having _been _said in the law of_the_master: A_pair two of _turtledoves or young of _doves. (LUK_2:24)

OET-RV: 24 and hence a sacrifice has to be made, which according to that law is a pair of turtledoves or a pair of young doves. (LUK 2:24)

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural GFP=genitive,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural