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# יוֹנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3124

**Jonah** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jonah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3124/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹנָה²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3124/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. prophet, according to 2 K 14:25 he was הַנָּבִיא, son of אֲמִתַּי, from גַּת הַחֵפֶר, and predicted the recovery of Isr.’s territory which Jerob. II effected; he is also the principal figure of the Book of Jonah: 1:1 (בֶּן־אֲמִתַּי), v 3, 5, 7, 15 2:1(×2), 2, 11; 3:1, 3, 4; 4:1, 5, 6(×2), 8, 9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jonah (18); of Jonah (1).

## In the verses

[Jonah 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.3.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֧י דְבַר־יְהוָ֛ה אֶל־יוֹנָ֖ה שֵׁנִ֥ית לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Jonah a.second.\[time\] (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying:

[Jonah 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־יוֹנָ֥ה בֶן־אֲמִתַּ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Jonah the.son of.Amittai (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* NOW THE WORD of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3124.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3124/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).