BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3124
yo.nah — Jonah
A prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.14.25; son of: Amittai (H0573) Also named: Iōnas (Ἰωνᾶς "Jonah" G2495H) § Jonah = "dove" son of Amittai and a native of Gath-hepher; 5th of the minor prophets who prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II and whom God sent also to prophecy to Nineveh
17 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2495
Iōnas — John
Ἰωνᾶς, -ᾶ, ὁ (Heb. יוֹנָה), Jonah, the prophet: Mat.12:39-41 16:4, Luk.11:29-30, 32.† (AS)
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1662
gat-ha.che.pher — Gath-hepher
§ Gath-hepher or Gittah-hepher = "the winepress of digging" home town of Jonah on the border of Zebulun
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H573
a.mit.tay — Amittai
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.14.25; father of: Jonah (H3124) § Amittai = "my truth" the father of Jonah the prophet
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G920
Bariōnas — Bar-Jonah
Βαριωνᾶς, Βαριωνᾶ, -ᾶ, ὁ (Aram. בַּר־יוֹנָה, son of Jonah), Bar-Jonah, a surname of Peter: Mat.16:17.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6652
bar — son
βάρ (Aram.: בַּר, son), indecl.: β. Ἰωνᾶ, son of Jonah, Mat.16:17, Rec. (L, T, WH, Βαριωνᾶ, which see).† (AS)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →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.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
