In the Bible, a prophet who was swallowed by a great fish and disgorged unharmed three days later. [Hebrewyônâ,dove; seeywninSemitic roots.] Jo·nah2 (jō′nə) n. 1.See Table atBible. 2.One thought to bring bad luck. ...
Nineveh had many suburbs, three are mentioned along with Nineveh in Gen 10:11, 12. Nineveh’s extensive ruins are located near the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. Jonah 1:3 The natural harbor of the city of Joppa (modern Jaffa, Israel) has been in use since the Bronze Age. It was the...
but some learned men took it to be the dog fish before mentioned; and such a large devouring creature is the shark, of which the present bishop of Bergen F23, and others, interpret this fish here; in which sometimes has been found the body of a man, and even of a man in armour, ...
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”King James BibleSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if ...
That is, arise from the place where he was, and leave the business he was about, and prepare for a long journey to the place mentioned, and be as expeditious in it as possible. Nineveh was the metropolis of the Assyrian empire at this time; it was an ancient city built by Ashur, no...
Focuses on Jonah 3:10-4:11 which includes Jonah fleeing from God. Jonah's description of God in Jonah 4:2; Number of times Nineveh is mentioned in chapter 3; Reference to the conversation between Jonah and God.TurnerMary DonovanInterpretation: A Journal of Bible & Theology...
NLT emphasizes the rhetorical point: “in the opposite direction,” though “Tarshish” is mentioned later in the verse. Jonah 1:3 tn Heb“Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish away from the Lord.” Jonah 1:3 tn Heb“away from the presence of the Lord.” The term מִלִּפ...
This short narrative book of the Old Testament contains one of the most famous Bible Stories, of “Jonah and the Whale.” The “great fish” however is only mentioned in three verses, and the true punch comes in the oft-neglected fourth chapter. “Is it right” for a person like Jonah...
The greatness of Nineveh has been mentioned already in 1:2 and 3:2. What is being added now? Does the term לֵאלֹהִים (leʾlohim,“to God/gods”) (1) refer to the Lord’s personal estimate of the city, (2) speak of the city as “belonging to” God,...
Every detail of it is omitted, indeed it is not even mentioned; it is as though the Spirit of God has one object alone before Him, and that is to tell of the warning sent to the city of Nineveh; the servant and his experiences are all kept out of sight....