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“Arise,קוּםgoלֵךְtoאֶלNineveh,נִינְוֵהthe greatהַגְּדוֹלָהcity,הָעִירand cry outוּקְרָאagainst it,עָלֶיהָforכִּיtheir evilרָעָתָםhas come upעָלְתָהbefore me.”לְפָנָי
Jonah 1:2
Study it in the app““Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come up before me.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Jonah 1:2, word by word
- “Ariseקוּםkum
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appears- goלֵךְlech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appears- Ninevehנִינְוֵהninve
Nineveh
See it on the mapWhere else “ninve” appears- the greatגְּדוֹלָהgedola
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedola” appears- cityעִירir
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appears- and cry outקְרָאkera
cry out
To shout to YHWH for help, call on his name.
Where else “kera” appears- their evilרָעָתָraata
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raata” appears- has come upעָלְתָהalta
rise
To rise: the sun, the smoke.
Where else “alta” appears- before meפָנָfana
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fana” appears
Places in this verse
Nineveh
Today: Nineveh ruins, beside Mosul, Iraq
An Assyrian city on the Tigris River in northern Iraq today, across from present-day Mosul.
Jonah preached there, and the city turned from its evil way (Jonah 3:3-10). Nahum later announced its fall (Nah 1:1).
The context
1And the word of YHWH came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
2 · This verse (above)
3But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of YHWH. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; he paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the presence of YHWH.