Jonah
יוֹנָהStrong’s H3124yonah (yo-nah)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yonah is the Hebrew word usually translated “jonah”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.”
Meaning
- A prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.14.25
How it's translated
- jonah 18
- and jonah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jonah 16
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jonah 1:1Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
- Jonah 1:3But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
- Jonah 1:5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
- Jonah 1:7And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
- Jonah 1:15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
- Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Hebrew dictionary
יוֹנָה yonah · Jonah
A prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.14.25; son of: Amittai (H0573) Also named: Iōnas (Ἰωνᾶς "Jonah" G2495H) § Jonah = "dove" son of Amittai and a native of Gath-hepher; 5th of the minor prophets who prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II and whom God sent also to prophecy to Nineveh
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.