jonah
part of speech
proper noun (Jonah); noun (a jonah — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) (Bible) Jonah is a prophet in the Bible who ran away from God's command, was swallowed by a great fish, and after three days was spat out on land; then he preached in the city of Nineveh. tree →
2) (informal, old) A jonah is a person thought to bring bad luck, especially on a ship. tree →
sense in the lessons
The story of Jonah is told in Sunday schools and RE lessons: it teaches that you cannot hide from God and that God shows mercy, even to enemies who change their ways. Jews read it on Yom Kippur. "Jonah and the whale" is the usual name, though the Bible says "a great fish". Sailors once called an unlucky man "a jonah".
examples
- Jonah tried to sail away instead of going to Nineveh. tree →
- A great storm came, and the sailors threw Jonah into the sea. tree →
- Jonah stayed inside the fish for three days and nights. tree →
- Our class acted out Jonah and the whale with a paper fish. tree →
- God forgave the people of Nineveh, and Jonah was cross about it. tree →
- The old sailors grumbled that the new cook was a jonah. tree →
note
Name: capital J. The input is in lower case, but the word is almost always a name. The Bible says "great fish", not "whale" — a common mix-up. Book of Jonah is one of the short prophet books.
In the corpora
- God sent Jonah to warn the city of Nineveh, but Jonah ran away on a ship going the other way.
- In a storm Jonah was thrown overboard, swallowed by a great fish and spat out on land after three days.
- Jonah preached, the whole city of Nineveh repented, and God spared it; Jonah was angry about this.
- Christians differ on whether to read Jonah as history or as a teaching story; this is disputed.
- NOW THE WORD of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «jonah» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.