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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Jonah
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Jonah
Jonah is a minor prophet who worked during the days of Jeroboam the Second (782-753 BC), just after Elisha and just before Amos and Hosea. God sends Jonah to Nineveh but he flees to Tarshish. During the journey, a storm compels Jonah's shipmates to throw him overboard and he is swallowed up by a great fish (which was not a whale; something that is made very clear by the Hebrew wording of the story). In Matt 12:40, Jesus compares His three day stay in the grave with Jonah's famous three-day stay in the great fish. |
