Jonah

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jonah \Jo"nah\, n.
     The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who
     endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is
     unpropitious.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Jonah crab} (Zool.), a large crab ({Cancer borealis}) of the
        eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found
        between tides, but usually in deep water.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Jonah
       n 1: (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
       2: a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
          [syn: {jinx}]
       3: a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah
          and the whale [syn: {Book of Jonah}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "Jonah":
     Abraham, Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, Hosea, Isaac, Isaiah,
     Jacob, Jeremiah, Joel, Joseph, Joshua, Malachi, Micah, Moses,
     Nahum, Samuel, Zephaniah, bad influence, curse, enchantment,
     evil eye, evil genius, evil star, hex, hoodoo, ill wind, jinx,
     malevolent influence, malocchio, prophet, spell, vates sacer,
     voodoo, whammy
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jonah
     a dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of
     Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries
     (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. He exercised his ministry
     very early in the reign of Jeroboam II., and thus was
     contemporary with Hosea and Amos; or possibly he preceded them,
     and consequently may have been the very oldest of all the
     prophets whose writings we possess. His personal history is
     mainly to be gathered from the book which bears his name. It is
     chiefly interesting from the two-fold character in which he
     appears, (1) as a missionary to heathen Nineveh, and (2) as a
     type of the "Son of man."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jonah, or Jonas, a dove; he that oppresses; destroyer