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Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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Jonah 3— 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.
The word of the LORD comes a second time1
Jonah 3:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Targum Jonathan on Jonah 3:1
And this was the word of prophecy from before the LORD with Jonah again, saying:
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Jonah 3:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Jonah 3:2
"Get up..[call out] that which I speak"- [Meaning,] that I spoke to you already and also that which I am now speaking to you, that you should call out to it [the city] that it will be overturned because of their evil.
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Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown3
Jonah 3:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Jonah 3:3
"And he got up..a city great to God."- [When it comes to] anything which one wants to enlarge, [one should] juxtapose it with God in a way that increases its size, like [it says in the following phrases]: "Like the mountains of God," (Tehillim:7) "The cedars of God,"(Tehillim:11) "A flame of God from its darkness."
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Jonah 3:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Jonah 3:4
overturned Destroyed. [He did not say, “Destroyed,” because “overturned” has two meanings, bad and good. If they do not repent, it will be destroyed; if they repent, then “overturned” refers to the people of Nineveh, that they will be changed from bad to good, and they will repent.
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Sackcloth from the throne down, and God relents5
Jonah 3:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Jonah 3:5
"And they believed"- because the sailors were in the city and they testified about Yonah that they had cast him into the sea, and the rest of his story as it happened. This is why they believed his prophecy and repented completely.
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Jonah 3:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 3:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 3:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 3:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Jonah 3:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Jonah 3:10
and God will relent —He will think about the evil to repent of it.
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