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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jonah \Jo"nah\, n. The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence any person whose presence is unpropitious. {Jonah crab} (Zo["o]l.), a large crab ({Cancer borealis}) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Jonah n 1: (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land [syn: {Jonah}] 2: a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him [syn: {jinx}] 3: a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale [syn: {Jonah}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Jonah a dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. He exercised his ministry very early in the reign of Jeroboam II., and thus was contemporary with Hosea and Amos; or possibly he preceded them and consequently may have been the very oldest of all the prophets whose writings we possess. His personal history is mainly to be gathered from the book which bears his name It is chiefly interesting from the two-fold character in which he appears, (1) as a missionary to heathen Nineveh, and (2) as a type of the "Son of man." From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Jonah, or Jonas, a dove; he that oppresses; destroyer
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