יוֹנָהYôwnâh
proper name, masculine: prophet, principal figure of the Book of Jonah (2 Kings 14:25; 2 Kings 1:1; 2 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 1:5; 2 Kings 1:7)
Pronunciation: yo-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3124
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 14:25 Jeroboam II recovered the territories of Israel between Lebo-hamath and the Dead Sea, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had promised through Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
- Jonah 1:1 The Lord gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai:
- Jonah 1:3 But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish.
- Jonah 1:5 Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. But all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.
- Jonah 1:7 Then the crew cast lots to see which of them had offended the gods and caused the terrible storm. When they did this, the lots identified Jonah as the culprit.
- Jonah 1:15 Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).