Passage Research
Jonah 3 — Sermon Preparation
Jonah obeys God's renewed command and preaches to Nineveh; the entire city from king to commoner repents, and God relents from the disaster. Below is a research summary for Jonah 3, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 13
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Jonah 3 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נִינְוֵה | Nîynᵉvêh | H5210 | 7 | Nineveh |
| שַׂק | saq | H8242 | 3 | mesh, run |
| יוֹנָה | Yôwnâh | H3124 | 3 | Jonah |
| גָּדוֹל | gâdôwl | H1419 | 4 | great, older |
| קָרָא | qârâʼ | H7121 | 4 | call out to |
| מַהֲלָךְ | mahălâk | H4109 | 2 | walk, passage |
| שׁוּב | shûwb | H7725 | 4 | turn, return |
How preachers through history handled this text
13 public-domain excerpts on Jonah 3, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“There was a wonder of Divine grace in the repentance and reformation of Nineveh. It condemns the men of the gospel generation, Mt 12:41. A very small degree of light may convince men that humbling themselves before God, confessing their sins with prayer, and turning from sin, are means of escaping wrath and obtaining mercy. The people followed the example of the king. It became a national act, and it was necessary it should be so, when it was to prevent a national ruin. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Jonah 3:5–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Nineveh— Jonah 3:2
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