Jonah - What does it mean?
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* 2010 (w, Maggie O'Farrell), The Hand That First Held Mine , Headline, ISBN 9780755308453, page 165:
*:'It's Jonah ,' Ted says.
*:Simmy considers this. 'As in the whale?'
*:'Yep.'
*:'You know,' Simmy says, 'that people are going to say that to him for ever more?'
*:'What? The whale thing?'
*:'Yes.'
*:Ted shrugs again. 'Well. He'll get used to it. All names have got some associations. Anyway, he looks like a Jonah'. And I like the name ' Jonah —'
*:'Obviously,' Simmy cuts in, 'since you chose it.'
(biblical) A minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale.
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A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
(Quran) The 10th sura (chapter) of the Quran
(nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
(slang, by extension of the nautical sense) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 61:
*:‘My first agent, and he's dead. It's incredible. I feel like a complete Jonah .’
jonah
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- So they took up Jonah , and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.