Study it in the app“And 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?””
God ends Jonah by recalling his pity for Nineveh and its animalsCreation
And I,וַאֲנִיshould I notלֹאhave pityאָחוּסonעַלNineveh,נִינְוֵהthe greatהַגְּדוֹלָהcity,הָעִירin whichאֲשֶׁר בָּהּthere areיֶשׁmore thanהַרְבֵּה מִa hundred and twenty thousandשְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה רִבּוֹhuman beingsאָדָםwhoאֲשֶׁרdo notלֹאknowיָדַעhow to tellbetweenבֵּיןtheir right handיְמִינוֹand their left,לִשְׂמֹאלוֹand muchרַבָּהlivestock?”וּבְהֵמָה
pity, spare
Have pity, take compassion; spare. "Let your eye not pity" means do not worry about what you leave behind.
Where else “achus” appearsNineveh
See it on the mapWhere else “ninve” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedola” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsgreatly
Used to say 'in great quantity' or 'very much'.
Where else “harbe” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shetem” appears-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “esre” appearsten thousand, myriad
Ten thousand; also a very large, countless number ("myriad").
Where else “ribo” appearshuman being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yada” appearsright hand
The hand on the side of strength and honor.
Where else “yemin” appearsleft
The side of the hand that is not the right.
Where else “semol” appearsmuch
In great quantity, more than expected.
Where else “raba” appearslivestock
A four-legged animal, above all farm animals.
Where else “vehema” appearsNineveh
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).
10And 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.
11 · This verse (above)
