jonah

     

Accoring to the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) and Qur'an, Jonah (Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Standard Yona Tiberian jon'ɔh ; Arabic: يونس, Yunus or يونان, Yunaan ; Latin Ionas ; "Dove") was a prophet who was swallowed by a great fish.

Trivia about jonah

  • As this man "Was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be...in...the Earth"
  • This prophet passed the time he spent inside a fish offering up prayers
  • While Encyclopedia Americana says this Old Testament book should be read as a parable, we say it’s a big fish story
  • This prophet's accomplishments include being "vomited out" of a great fish
  • Oddly, his name means "dove" & not "he of the big fish"
  • The song "It Ain't Necessarily So" says this Biblical man "Made his home in / that fish's abdomen"
  • "Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up" this man
  • “And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out” this man “upon the dry land”
  • This book says Nineveh was so big it took 3 days to cross; that's a whale of a tale to us
  • He "was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights"
  • This prophet was actually swallowed by a "great fish", not a whale
  • After being delivered from the belly of the great fish, he warned Nineveh of its great evil
  • In his Biblical book, he's tossed overboard at his own request
  • In the Old Testament, he prays to God, "Out of the belly of Hell cried I, and Thou heardest my voice"
  • Big fish puts the bite on a reluctant prophet
  • John 3
  • In his Bible book he "prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly"
  • "So they took up (him), and cast him forth into the sea"
  • In his own book, this Hebrew prophet is swallowed by a great fish & coughed up 3 days later
  • When God called him to prophesy in Nineveh, he fled by ship
  • After he was swallowed by a great fish, he finally obeyed God's orders to go to Nineveh
  • "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas"
  • "Take me up and cast me forth into the sea"
  • "Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice"
  • "Take me up. and cast me forth into the sea", for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you"
  • The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83
  • "Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea"
  • God asked him, "Should not I spare Nineveh... wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons"
  • This prophet tried to flee God's presence by shipping out to Tarshish -- didn't work