Engels term (edited): dove and pigeon

Je zin: "Het Hebreeuwse woord 'Yonah' wordt drieëntwintig maal genoemd in de Heilige Schrift (of bijbel) in de betekenis van 'witte duif' en tien keer wordt naar "rotsduiven' verwezen."

Dove is typisch een witte duif. Pigeon is een van de andere soorten duiven (rots, post, tortel, hout wilde, Turkse tortel etc). In deze context is het een rotsduif, lijkt me.
http://members.home.nl/albertmetselaar/duiven2.htm
http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f5/pigeons-or-doves-in-the-bib...



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Note added at 20 hrs (2011-01-14 17:49:21 GMT)
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There are about 3 times as many google hits (images) for "white dove" than there are for "white pigeon".

Generally, a pigeon is a dove, but a dove is not a pigeon:
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/384


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Note added at 21 hrs (2011-01-14 19:00:59 GMT)
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Toelichting van de vraagstelster:

Je hebt gereageerd op mijn vraag over de vertaling van Dove
en Pigeon. Ik ben beginnend in KudoZ. en kan even niet
vinden hoe ik daar op je kan reageren, dus vandaar mijn
reactie per mail.

Mijn brontekst is de Engelse zin: The Hebrew word 'Yonah'
is mentioned twenty three times in scripture meaning 'dove'
and ten times referring to 'pigeons.'

Het stukje context is een samenvatting van de tekst die
voorafgaat aan deze zin. Het leek mij dat ik mijn posting
onprettig lang zou maken door de hele tekst te plaatsen.
Maar hieronder het hele gedeelte:

Good symbol, that which represents something else, can be
used to clarify reason. Symbols are very powerful. For example, when we think about Jesus at his baptism with
a dove descending, what do we see?
The dove in the Greek is a female word, peristera. This word is used for the rock dove, not the white
fluffy-looking creature so often portrayed in paintings, but
a rather dull-looking bird, more like our well known wood
pigeon. In David Bannerman's 'Birds of the British Isles', he
writes, "It is a rock frequenting bird, never perching on
trees. It has however been known under special circumstances to
alight on water." Apparently the rock dove's natural habitat was the desert,
and therefore it is not surprising that this was the
creature to alight on the baptised Jesus. Also of interest is its nesting habits; the rock dove
delights to frequent inhospitable and dark places, horribly
gloomy and forbidding caverns and caves extending far beyond
the light of day, where the air smells dank and foul, and
the walls are dripping with unwholesome slime. The rock dove delights to frequent such inhospitable and
dark places, and there transforms them by turning them into
places of life. This, as Michael Mitton writes, "Is no fluffy creature
beautifying Christian meetings, but is a rugged creature
that delights to transform the desperate and dark places of
our broken world, making them places of new life.'65
Poor symbol can cause us to believe we have to clean up our
hearts before we can allow this beautiful, white fragile
dove/spirit to enter. The truth is that the dove/spirit enters to transform,
clean up, change and give life.
As I have written, doves were not white as traditionally
depicted but birds that made their nests in rocks or holes
in the cliff, or sometimes in trees or bushes, The Hebrew word 'Yonah' is mentioned twenty three times in
scripture meaning 'dove' and ten times referring to
'pigeons.' The dove was one of the earliest creatures to be
domesticated by man and was the poor man's sacrifice,
Imagine standing there seeing the Holy Spirit in bodily
form descending on Jesus as a dove. Maybe it would denote to you the promise that Jesus had
come to be a sacrifice even for the poorest of the poor.

Mijn probleem is dat ik niet weet hoe ik in het Nederlands
het verschil tussen "dove" en "pigeon" moet duidelijk
maken.