Word

יוֹנָה

Yôwnâh · H3124 · Hebrew · proper noun · 19 occurrences

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Person

Jonahfirst named in 2 Kings 14:2524 verses

Meanings

Jonah

A man who was the son of Amittai and a prophet sent to preach against Nineveh

Examples
2 Kings 14:25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
Jonah 1:1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship that was going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the LORD.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 2
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1

What it doesIt is the subject

8 occurrences in 7 groups

קוּםto arise 2
הָיָהto be, to become 1
חָלַלto profane, to begin 1
יָצָאto go out 1
יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
פָּלַלto pray, to intercede 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בָּלַעto swallow 1
נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
קָיָהto vomit 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 4 groups

אֵלto, toward 8
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
מִןfrom 1
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Birds001001002005: This entry carries no independent "Birds" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of יוֹנָה under this Strong's number (2 Kings 14:25 and throughout the book of Jonah) is the proper name of the prophet Jonah, not the common noun for a dove. The domain reflects the name's underlying derivation from the word for "dove" rather than this lexeme's own attested content.
Names of People003001007: יוֹנָה (Jonah) names the prophet sent to Nineveh whose flight and commission are recounted in the book bearing his name (Jonah 1:1) and mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3124. Yonah II. יוֺנָה proper name, masculine prophet, according to 2Ki 14:25 he was…

H3124. Yonah
II. יוֺנָה proper name, masculine prophet, according to 2Ki 14:25 he was הַנָּבִיא son of אֲמִתַּי, from הַחֵפֶר גַּת and predicted the recovery of Israel's territory which Jeroboam II effected; he is also the principal figure of the Book of Jonah: 2Ki 1:1 (בֶּןאֲֿמִתַּי), 2Ki 1:3; 2Ki 1:5; 2Ki 1:7; 2Ki 1:15; 2Ki 2:1 (twice in verse); 2Ki 2:2, 2Ki 2:11; 2Ki 3:1, 2Ki 3:3, 2Ki 3:4; 2Ki 4:1, 2Ki 4:5, 2Ki 4:6 (twice in verse); 2Ki 4:8-9,.
III. הַיּוֺנָה see יָנָה Participle

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0