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Jonah was an 8th-century Jewish prophet from the Northern Kingdom of Israel who became the central figure of the Book of Jonah, one of the Hebrew Bible's minor prophets. The book tells how Jonah reluctantly resisted God's command to deliver judgment to the city of Nineveh, was swallowed by a sea creature, and eventually returned to complete his divine mission.
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Key facts
- Saint.name
- Jonah
- Saint.image
- Dore jonah.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 270
- Saint.caption
- Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours
- Saint.titles
- Prophet
- Saint.birth_date
- 9th century BCE
- Saint.birth_place
- Gath-hepher, Kingdom of Israel
- Saint.death_date
- 8th century BCE
- Saint.feast_day
- 21 September (Catholicism)
- Saint.major_shrine
- Tomb of Jonah (destroyed), Mosul, Iraq
- Saint.venerated_in
- JudaismChristianityIslamBaháʼí FaithRastafari
- Person.embed
- yes
- Person.father
- Amittai
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Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of birth
- Gath-hepher
- Place of death
- Nineveh
- Mother
- Widow of Zarephath
- Occupation
- preacher
- Position held
- prophet
- Languages spoken
- Biblical Hebrew
- Religion
- Yahwism
- Image
- Sistine jonah.jpg
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- feast day
- September 21
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- date of birth
- 0823-00-00
- name in native language
- יוֹנָה
- present in work
- Second Book of Kings
- different from
- Yunus
- ethnic group
- Israelites
- date of death
- 0720-00-00
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- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Religion
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Article · Deutsch
Jona, Sohn des Amittai, ist einer der Schriftpropheten im Tanach. Die nach ihm benannte Schrift gehört zum Zwölfprophetenbuch und stellt darin die einzige durchgehende Erzählung dar und beinhaltet nur eine Prophezeiung. Parallelen dazu sind die Geschichten über Elija und Elischa im 1. Buch der Könige.
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