Bible Verse Dictionary
Jonah 3:4 - Nineveh
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And Jonah | H3124 | יוֹנָה |
[Proper Name Masculine] {Jonah} an Israelite |
began | H2490 | חָלַל |
[Verb] properly to {bore} that {is} (by implication) to {wound} to dissolve; figuratively to profane (a {person} place or {thing}) to break (one´ s {word}) to begin (as if by an opening-wedge); denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute) |
to enter | H935 | בּוֹא |
[Verb] to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) |
into the city | H5892 | עִיר |
[Noun Masculine] From H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) |
a | H259 | אֶחָד |
[Adjective] properly {united} that {is} one; or (as an ordinal) first |
day's journey | H4109 | מַהֲלָךְ |
[Noun Masculine] a {walk} that {is} a passage or a distance |
and he cried | H7121 | קָרָא |
[Verb] to call out to (that {is} properly address by {name} but used in a wide variety of applications) |
and said | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
Yet | H5750 | עוֹד |
[Substitution] properly iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without {preposition}) again: {repeatedly} {still } more |
forty | H705 | אַרְבָּעִים |
forty |
days | H3117 | יוֹם |
[Noun Masculine] a day (as the warm {hours}) whether literally (from sunrise to {sunset} or from one sunset to the {next}) or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated {term}) (often used adverbially) |
and Nineveh | H5210 | נִינְוֵה |
[Proper Name Location] {Nineveh} the capital of Assyria |
shall be overthrown | H2015 | הָפַךְ |
[Verb] to turn about or over; by implication to {change} overturn: {return} pervert |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.