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Jonah vs Jonathan - What's the difference?

jonah | jonathan |

As proper nouns the difference between jonah and jonathan

is that jonah is a given name derived from Hebrew while Jonathan is a son of Saul, first mentioned in 1 Samuel.

As a noun Jonathan is

an apple cultivar from New York.

jonah

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 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.
  • * :
    • So they took up Jonah , and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
  • 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 .’

    • Derived terms

    * Jonah fishing

    Related terms

    * Jonas * Jonasen * Jonasohn * Jonassen * Jonassohn * Jonasson

    References

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    jonathan

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A son of Saul, first mentioned in 1 Samuel.
  • * :
    • And it came to pass, when he had made an end to speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan' was knit with the soul of David, and ' Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
  • of biblical origin.
  • * 1936 (w, Frank O'Connor), In The Train . The Stories of Frank O'Connor, Knopf, 1952. page 166:
    • "Well indeed," said Foley, "'tis a mystery to me how the sergeant puts up with her. If any woman up and called me an outlandish name like Jonathan when everyone knew my name was plain John I'd do fourteen days for her - by God, I would, and a calendar month."
  • * 1998 , The Chimney Sweeper's Boy , ISBN 0670879274, page 168:
    • So I'd change to names I really like. I mean, Jonathan'. If I ever have a son I'm going to call him '''Jonathan''', so I'd have that. And then I like monosyllabic surnames that aren't too common, so I'd have Dean or Bell or King. There you are, how about ' Jonathan King?

    Related terms

    * nonstandard spellings: Jonathon, Johnathan * pet forms: Jon, Jonty, Jonny, Nathan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (en) An apple cultivar from New York.