turtledove in English

noun
1
a small Old World dove with a soft purring call, noted for the apparent affection shown for its mate.

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1. Tell that to the bullfrog, chicken hawk or turtledove

2. And the song of the turtledove is heard in our land.

3. "Down in the Bottomlands" is a novella written by Harry Turtledove

4. The turtledove and the swift and the thrush* keep to the time of their return.

5. King Solomon wrote of “the song of the turtledove,” which heralds the arrival of spring.

6. Did they offer a ram along with a turtledove or a pigeon, as stipulated by the Law?

7. If they felt shame in offering less than the ram and a turtledove that other parents could afford, they put such feelings aside.

8. What a pleasure it is to listen to the soothing murmur of a running brook, the cooing of a turtledove, or the chuckling laugh of a baby!

9. 9 He replied to him: “Take for me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

10. In fact, the Creator himself said: “The stork in the sky knows its seasons; the turtledove and the swift and the thrush keep to the time of their return.” —Jeremiah 8:7.

11. Instead of bringing a young ram as a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering, they brought either “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

12. 6 When the days of her purification for a son or a daughter are completed, she will bring a young ram in its first year for a burnt offering+ and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.