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title: יוֹנָה — Jonah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יוֹנָה (3124), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 19 times: Jonah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יוֹנָה

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«יוֹנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jonah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 19 times · **Key:** 3124 · **BDB:** יוֹנָה²

### Glosses

Jonah (18); of.Jonah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יוֹנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3124/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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:

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[Jonah 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.1/)

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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:

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