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in reply to a message by Alena
The Hebrew word for "dove", both biblical and modern, is yona, JONAH as a name.
As far as I can see there is no Hebrew word yemima. The biblical name JEMIMAH usually is translated as "dove", but it looks like this is taken from an Arabic parallel: "yamamatun".
This last bit is taken from:
Martin Noth: Die israelitischen Personennamen im Rahmen der gemeinsemitischen Namengebung, Stuttgart 1928
As far as I can see there is no Hebrew word yemima. The biblical name JEMIMAH usually is translated as "dove", but it looks like this is taken from an Arabic parallel: "yamamatun".
This last bit is taken from:
Martin Noth: Die israelitischen Personennamen im Rahmen der gemeinsemitischen Namengebung, Stuttgart 1928
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