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From A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Francis Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles Briggs, based on the lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius. Edited by Richard Whitaker (Princeton Theological Seminary). Text provided by Princeton Theological Seminary. A trio of eminent Old Testament scholars—Francis Brown, R. Driver, and Charles Briggs—spent over twenty years researching, writing, and...

I. יוֹנָה n.f. dove — dove; oft. of offerings; in various similes: Ephr. is כְּיוֹנָה פּוֹתָה like a silly dove (allowing itself to be snared); sim. of return of exiles, like eager flight of doves, of ships with white outspread sails; sim. of fugitive Moab; sim. of mourning; fig. of beauty; term of endearment.