אֲמִתַּיʼĂmittay

proper name, masculine: father of the prophet Jonah (2 Kings 14:25; Jonah 1:1)

Pronunciation: am-it-tah'ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H573

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 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:

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).