noun · masculine
iōnos
Strong’sG2495
Jonah
stem iōn-9 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Ἰωνᾶς, -ᾶ, ὁ (Heb. יוֹנָה),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2495 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidee-o-nas'
Jonas (i.e. Jonah), the name of two Israelites
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesJonas.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Jonah, the prophet:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | iōnos2×Ἰωνᾶς | iōnois |
| object accusative | iōnon | iōnoin |
| direct address vocative | iōnor | iōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | iōnou7×Ἰωνᾶ | iōnoiu |
| to, for dative | iōno | iōnoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
iōno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
iōnos“Jonah”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 12:40hōsper gar ate Iōnos en ta koilia teu kēteu treis …For as Jonah was three days and three nights …
Luke 11:30kathōs gar geneta Iōnos toi Nineuitoi sēmem, houtōs eti kai …For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites …
iōnou“Jonah”of, belonging togenitive singular7×
Matthew 12:39… dōiti auta ei mē tem sēmem Iōnou tou profētou.… except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 12:41… autan; hoti metanoala eis tem kērugmem Iōnou, kai idou polloterem Iōnou hōde.… they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah …
Matthew 12:41… tem kērugmem Iōnou, kai idou polloterem Iōnou hōde.… Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 16:4… dōiti auta ei mē tem sēmem Iōnou. kai kataleiparantos autoin aperchata.… given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went …
Luke 11:29… dōiti auta ei mē tem sēmem Iōnou.… given it except the sign of Jonah.
Luke 11:32… autan; hoti metanoala eis tem kērugmem Iōnou, kai idou polloterem Iōnou hōde.… they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah …
Luke 11:32… tem kērugmem Iōnou, kai idou polloterem Iōnou hōde.… Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.