ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΙ, περιστεραι
PERISTERAI, peristerai
Sounds Like: peh-ris-TEH-rai
Translations: doves, pigeons
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to doves or pigeons. It is often used to describe these birds, which were common in ancient times and held symbolic significance, sometimes representing peace or innocence. It can be used in sentences to refer to a group of these birds.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4058 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:145
Codex Sinaiticus
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 10:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑ — dove, a dove, pigeon, a pigeon
- ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΙΣ — doves, pigeons, to doves, to pigeons, for doves, for pigeons
- ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΝ — dove, a dove, pigeon, a pigeon
- ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΣ — of a dove, of doves
- ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΕ — dove, a dove, pigeon, a pigeon
- ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΩΝ — of doves, of a dove
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