Jonah(noun)

(Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land

jonah, jinx(noun)

a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

Jonah, Book of Jonah(noun)

a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale

Jonah(ProperNoun)

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Jonah(ProperNoun)

A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

Jonah(ProperNoun)

A person who brings a ship bad luck.

Jonah(ProperNoun)

Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

Jonah(noun)

the Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious

Jonah

a Hebrew prophet, who, born in Gathhepher, belonged to the northern kingdom of Israel; prophesied in the reign of Jeroboam II., and whose special mission it was, at the bidding of the Lord, to preach repentance to the people of Nineveh; his book, which records his mission and the story of it, written apparently, as by God's dealings with the Ninevites he had himself been, to admonish the Jews that the heathen nations whom they regarded as God's enemies were as much the objects of His mercy as themselves.