turtledove
noun
In Jewish tradition
It is one of the birds allowed as an offering, for example by a Nazirite who has become unclean.
Interpretation. Tradition counts the turtledove and young pigeon as the only birds fit for the altar.
Meaning
A turtledove is a small, gentle wild bird like a pigeon. tree →
Examples
- And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. (Torah NUM.6.10, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «turtledove» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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