KJV King James Version
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Jonah 3:3
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
WEB World English Bible
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
ASV American Standard Version
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.
Surrounding context — Jonah 3
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיָּ֣קָםH6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamaiיוֹנָ֗הH3124 · yo.nahJonahוַיֵּ֛לֶךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)נִֽינְוֶ֖הH5210 · nin.vehNinevehכִּדְבַ֣רH1697 · da.varwordיְהוָ֑הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוְנִֽינְוֵ֗הH5210 · nin.vehNinevehהָיְתָ֤הH1961 · ha.yahto beעִיר־H5892 · irexcitementגְּדוֹלָה֙H1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeלֵֽאלֹהִ֔יםH430 · e.lo.himGodמַהֲלַ֖ךְH4109 · ma.ha.lakhjourneyשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁתH7969 · sha.loshthreeיָמִֽים׃H3117 · yomday
Cross-references
Psalm 80:10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.Matthew 21:28-29But what think ye? A [certain] man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.Genesis 22:3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.Psalm 36:6Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.Genesis 30:8And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.2 Timothy 4:11Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
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