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# jonathan

«jonathan» in Mova's school dictionary: **a common boy's first name** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Jonathan — a boy's name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Jonathan is a common boy's first name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#m1)

2) (Bible) In the Old Testament, Jonathan was the son of King Saul and the loyal best friend of David. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In religious education the friendship of David and Jonathan is a famous Bible example of loyal, loving friendship: Jonathan helped David escape when Saul wanted to kill him. In everyday life Jonathan is a common name, short forms Jon or Jonny. In stories it is just a character's name.

### examples

- Jonathan is the new boy in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x1)
- In the Bible, Jonathan loved David like a brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x2)
- Jonathan warned David to run away from King Saul. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x3)
- We call him Jon for short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x4)
- Jonathan scored the winning goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x5)
- The story of David and Jonathan teaches us about true friendship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x6)
- Jonathan Swift wrote «Gulliver's Travels». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/#x7)

### note

A name, so always with a capital J. The name comes from Hebrew and means «God has given». Spellings vary: Jonathan, Jonathon, Johnathan.

### In the corpora

- [Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/8/)
- [Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena who hatched around 1832, is thought to be the oldest known living land animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/11/)
- [In 1712 Jonathan Swift called for rules to stop English changing; people have complained about young people "ruining" English for centuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/5/)
- [Jonathan, King Saul's son, became David's best friend and protected him from Saul's jealousy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/14/)
- [And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.303/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jonathan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jonathan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.