Jonah 1:2
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me."
Word-by-Word Analysis
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
נִינְוֵה
Nîynᵉvêh
Nineveh, the capital of Assyria
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
עִיר
ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
Key Terms in This Verse
קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →עִיר ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Study H5892 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth...
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