Study it in the app“And YHWH said, “You had pity on the plant, for which you did not labor and which you did not make grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.”
And YHWHוַ יְהוָהsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Youאַתָּהhad pityחַסְתָּonעַלthe plant,הַקִּיקָיוֹןfor whichאֲשֶׁר בּוֹyou did notלֹאlaborעָמַלְתָּand which you did notוְלֹאmake grow,גִדַּלְתּוֹwhichשֶׁcame into beingהָיָהin a nightבִּן לַיְלָהand perishedוּ אָבָדin a night.בִן לַיְלָה
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearspity, spare
Have pity, take compassion; spare. "Let your eye not pity" means do not worry about what you leave behind.
Where else “chasta” appearsqiqayon plant
"Qiqayon": a plant that gives shade, probably the castor-oil plant (the identification is not certain).
Where else “kikayon” appearstoil, labor
To toil, to work hard and wearily.
Where else “amalta” appearsgrow up
To get bigger, become an adult; to bring up a child.
Where else “gidalt” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “haya” appearsyears old
To give someone's age, how long they have lived.
Where else “bin” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsperish
To die, be ruined.
Where else “avad” appears9Then Elohim said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry, to the point of death.”
10 · This verse (above)
11And I, should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand human beings who do not know how to tell between their right hand and their left, and much livestock?”
