Key facts
- Venerated in
- Roman Catholic Church , Eastern Orthodox Church
- Feast
- December 29
- Attributes
- Bow and Arrow
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- David and Jonathan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of birth
- Gibeah
- Place of death
- Mount Gilboa
- Child
- Mephibosheth
- Father
- Saul
- Sibling
- Michal
- Position held
- prince
- Languages spoken
- Biblical Hebrew
- Religion
- Yahwism
- Image
- Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano - Davide e Gionata.jpg
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- present in work
- Saul
- described by source
- Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
- Commons category
- Jonathan (Biblical figure)
- date of death
- 1010-00-00
- date of birth
- 1062-00-00
- partner in business or sport
- David
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Encyclopedic overview
Jonathan (Hebrew: יְהוֹנָתָן Yəhōnāṯān or יוֹנָתָן Yōnāṯān; "YHWH has gifted") is a figure in the Book of Samuel of the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, he is the eldest son of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel, and a close friend of David. He is described as having great strength and swiftness (2 Samuel 1:23) and excelling in archery (1 Samuel 20:20, 2 Samuel 1:22) and slinging (1 Chronicles 12:2).
Conflicts with Saul
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jonathan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.