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Jonah Is Spewed Forth by the Whale, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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Jonah 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
I cried out of the belly of Sheol and he heard me1
Jonah 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Jonah 2:1
a huge fish —It was a male, and he stood there with room, so that he did not think to pray.
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Targum Jonathan on Jonah 2:1
And the LORD invited a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the fish’s guts for three days and three nights.
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Jonah 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Cast into the deep, weeds wrapped about my head3
Jonah 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Jonah 2:3
from the belly of the grave —From the belly of the fish, which is to me as the grave.
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Jonah 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Jonah 2:4
all Your breakers and Your waves —All the breakers of the sea, since it breaks and parts the sea. [from Jonathan ]
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Jonah 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Salvation belongs to the LORD — and the fish lets him go7
Jonah 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Targum Jonathan on Jonah 2:10
And I, in laudation, give thanks; my offerings I will offer before You as I pledged; I will repay my soul’s redemption in the shadow of before the LORD!
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