Bible Names

Jonah: meaning of the name

Jonah means “or Jonas, a dove; he that oppresses; destroyer.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jonah in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹנָה H3124

Yôwnâh (yo-naw') — Jonah, an Israelite

the same as H3123 (יוֹנָה);

Who named Jonah in the Bible

Jonah in Scripture

“Jonah” appears in 17 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 14:25

    He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.

  • Jonah 1:1

    Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

  • Jonah 1:3

    But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

  • Jonah 1:5

    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

  • Jonah 1:7

    And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

  • Jonah 1:15

    So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

  • Jonah 1:17

    Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 2:1

    Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,