KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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To get what Jonah 1:4 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “But the Lord” | וַֽיהוָ֗ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “sent out” | הֵטִ֤יל | To pitch over or reel; hence (transitively) to cast down or out | sent out |
| “a great” | גְּדוֹלָה֙ | Great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent | great |
| “wind” | רֽוּחַ | Wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions) | wind |
| “into” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | into |
| “the sea,” | הַיָּ֔ם | A sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south | sea |
| “and there was” | וַיְהִ֥י | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | and there was |
| “a mighty” | גָּד֖וֹל | Great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent | mighty |
| “tempest” | סַֽעַר | A hurricane | tempest |
| “in the sea,” | בַּיָּ֑ם | A sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south | sea |
| “so that the ship” | וְהָ֣אֳנִיָּ֔ה | A ship | ship |
| “was like” | חִשְּׁבָ֖ה | Properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute | like |
| “to be broken.” | לְהִשָּׁבֵֽר׃ | To burst (literally or figuratively) | broken |
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2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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.
4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
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.
6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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