Senses
1. turtledove — The turtledove (Streptopelia turtur), an onomatopoetic name (tor) for a migratory bird used extensively as a sacrificial offering in Levitical law and as a symbol of vulnerability and gentleness. All auto-clusters represent the same single species across inflectional and syntactic variants: indefinite singular (Lev 12:6), plural (Lev 5:7,11; 12:8; 14:22; 15:14,29; Num 6:10), with article (Lev 1:14; 14:30), with conjunction (Gen 15:9; Jer 8:7), and with possessive suffix (Ps 74:19; Song 2:12). Cross-linguistically uniform: Arabic yamamah/yamamatayn (يَمَامَة), German Turteltaube, French tourterelle, Korean sanbidulgi (산비둘기), Spanish tortola, Hindi panduk/fakhtao (पंडुक/फाख्ता). No genuine polysemy exists; all occurrences refer to the same bird in sacrificial, covenantal, or natural-history contexts. 14×
AR["-اليَمَامِ","أَوْ-فَاخِتَيْنِ","الْيَمَامَاتِ","هَ-تُّور","وَ-يَمَامَةً","وَالـ-يَمَامَةُ","يَمامَتِكَ","يَمَامَةً","يَمَامَتَيْنِ"]·ben["-ঘুঘুর","এবং-ঘুঘু","ঘুঘু","ঝিনুক","তোমার-ঘুঘুর","সেই-ঘুঘু"]·DE["[התור]","[ותר]","dein-turtledove","der-turtledoves","turtledove","turtledoves","und-eine-Turteltaube"]·EN["Your-turtledove","and-a-turtledove","and-the-turtledove","the-turtledove","the-turtledoves","turtledove","turtledoves"]·FR["[ותר]","de-la-tourterelle","et-un-turtledove","le-tourterelles","tourterelle","tourterelles","turtledove"]·heb["ה-תור","ה-תורים","ו-תור","ו-תר","תורים","תורך"]·HI["और-फ़क्त","और-फाख्ता","कबूतर","पंडुक","पंडुकियाँ","पंडुकों","फ़ाख्ता-की","फाख्ताओं","से-एक"]·ID["-tekukur","burung-tekukur","burung-tekukur-Mu","dan-burung-tekukur"]·IT["[ותר]","[תורך]","e-un-turtledove","il-il-turtledove","il-tortore","tortora","tortore"]·jav["lan-manuk-derkuku","lan-tekukur","manuk-derkuku","manuk-perkutut","manuk-tekukur-Panjenengan","perkutut"]·KO["그-비둘기들","그-산비둘기-의","그리고-산비둘기를","그리고-산비둘기와","당신-의-산비둘기","산비둘기","산비둘기나","산비둘기들","산비둘기들의","산비둘기를"]·PT["a-rola","as-rolas","de-tua-rola","e-rola","rola","rolas"]·RU["горлиц","горлицу","горлицы","горлицы-Твоей","и-горлица","и-горлицу"]·ES["la-tórtola","las-tórtolas","tu-tórtola","tórtola","tórtolas","y-tórtola"]·SW["Trim","hua","na-hua","na-njiwa","njiwa","njiwa-wakubwa","wa-hua","ya-njiwa","ya-njiwa-wako"]·TR["-kumrular","kumru","kumrulardan","kumrunun","kumrusunun","ve-kumru"]·urd["اور-فاختہ","اور-قمری","اپنی-قمری-کی","فاختہ-کی","قمری","قمریاں","قمریوں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. תֹּר, תּוֹר 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.