A long-established expression among sailors uses the term " a Jonah " as meaning a person ( either a sailor or a passenger ) whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.

Later personified symbols were used, including Jonah, whose three days in the belly of the whale pre-figured the interval between the death and resurrection of Jesus, Daniel in the lion's den, or Orpheus ' charming the animals.

His name is a direct reference to the long established sailor's superstition ( which is in turn based on the Biblical prophet Jonah whose ship nearly sank in a storm ).

# In the Book of Jonah, the desperate sailors cast lots to see whose god is responsible for creating the storm: " Then the sailors said to each other, “ Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity .” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

In the 1800s, Vandal Savage-under the name of " Monsewer Sauvage " and currently weak from a cancer in his intenstines-wants Jonah Hex to eliminate the man who has been attacking his men, while Savage attempts to torture a woman whose family have been entrusted with a box, marked with the symbol of the bat, that they are to keep sealed until its owner comes to claim it.

The track describes Hex as " the rider with the gash: the bounty hunter Jonah Hex whose guns shot two-by-two ".

* Jonah: A person ( either a sailor or a passenger ) who carries a jinx, one whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.

The altarpiece of the chapel is a Birth of the Virgin by Sebastiano del Piombo, with a bronze bas-relief panel on the altar front of Christ and the Samaritan Woman, by Lorenzetto ; the statues of Jonah, who prefigured the Resurrection, and Elijah, whose words were accounted prophesies of Christ's coming ; they were carved by Lorenzetto ( 1520 ), to designs provided by Raphael.

Michael Cera and Jonah Hill originate the main roles, two teenage best friends whose party plans go wrong, based on them.

Prior to the election of the third Exarch, the Paladin Victor Ian Steiner-Davion was assassinated, whose death was investigated by Jonah Levin on the orders of Exarch Redburn.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

This concept is developed in the book of Jonah: Jonah, the son of truth, ( The name of his father " Amitai " in Hebrew means truth ,) refuses to ask the people of Nineveh to repent.

Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible to be mentioned by name in the Qur ' an.

The Greek rendering of the name Jonah was Jonas, which differs from Jason only in the order of sounds — both os are omegas suggesting that Jason was confused with Jonah.

The deity name " Oannes " first occurs in texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal ( more than a century after the time of Jonah ) as Uanna or Uan but is assimilated to Adapa, a deity first mentioned on fragments of tablets from the 15th or 14th century B. C.

Not to be confused with the meaning of the Assyrian name Younan ( also spelled, Yonan ), a transliteration of Jonah, from the Aramaic and Hebrew, " Yonah ", meaning dove or peace.

The name " Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen " was coined by the pseudonymous Daily Express radio critic Jonah Barrington in 1939, but this referred initially to Wolf Mittler ( or possibly Norman Baillie-Stewart ).

However, by other more documented accounts, the lake's designation borrows from the moniker of a Native American woman, Magdalena, who interpreted the language for a Spanish expedition into Florida in 1549, or even more likely, the name comes from the 1882 marriage of John Parrish and Mary Magdalene Yates, daughter of Jonah Yates, first mayor of Plant City in the Lake Magdalene section of Hillsborough County.

The origins of the name are unclear and many theories have been put forth, including incompetent sailors, a pub owner who kidnapped sailors, or that Davy Jones is another name for the devil — as in " Devil Jonah.

The comic's name in large letters with pictures of Dennis, Danny, Wilfrid, Little Plum, Toots, Roger, Plug & Smiffy ( who is upside down ) on the top and Jonah, Minnie, Biffo, Sidney, Fatty, Kat & Bash Street's Teacher ( with Kanary on his nose ) on the bottom.

* Iona, a Russianized form of the name Jonah

* Iona or Ionah, Hawaiianized form of the name Jonah used by Jonah Piikoi

She is a reporter for the Daily Bugle sent out with Peter Parker by J. Jonah Jameson to interview Captain America about his recent involvement in the recent Skrull Invasion in order to clear his name.

As the earlier Shannon's last name was never disclosed, and since Jonah Daytona was never married to Shannon's mother, this may imply that she was never Shannon Lewis in the first place.

" Yona " is also a common transliteration of the Hebrew form of the given name commonly given to both men and women, Jonah

* Spacetime Continuum ( real name: Jonah Sharp )

* On March 14, 2000 Jonah Goldberg's National Review Online column " Our, * ahem *, FAQ Welcome New Readers " contained the following: " Alas, because Goldberg watches Baywatch everyday and can name the main characters in almost every Marvel comic book from 1976 to 1986, he occasionally makes errors.

While Jonah metaphorically declared, “ Out of the belly of Sheol I cried ,” Jesus will literally be in the belly of Sheol.

The Hebrew text of Jonah ( 1: 17 in English translation ), reads dag gadol ( Hebrew: דג גדול ), which literally means " great fish.

In Jonah 2: 1 ( 1: 17 in English translation ), the original Hebrew text reads dag gadol ( דג גדול ), which literally means " big fish.

In Jonah 2: 1 ( 1: 17 in English translation ), the Hebrew text reads dag gadol ( דג גדול ), which literally means " great fish.

He played in the Rugby World Cup in 1995, although arguably his most memorable moment in that tournament was when his opposite number, Jonah Lomu, literally ran a ring around him, before powering straight over the tackle of full back Mike Catt to score what would be one of his four tries in that game.

" The peculiarity of this change of gender led the later rabbis to reason that this means Jonah was comfortable in the roomy male fish, so he didn't pray, but that God then transferred him to a smaller, female fish, in which the prophet was uncomfortable, so that he prayed.

He has performed the essential Jonah act of allowing himself to be swallowed, remaining passive, accepting-even when this means accepting " concentration camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes.

is a variant transliteration for Jonah ( יונה ) in Hebrew and means dove.

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

Jonah is the equivalent of " dove ", Zipporah of " bird ", and Deborah of " bee.

Yona is Hebrew for dove ( besides being the Hebrew form of Jonah ), so while the town searches for new symbols, especially among school-age children in its quest to build up community feelings from a young age, the dove is a frequently used symbol.

In his 1534 translation, William Tyndale translated the phrase in Jonah 2: 1 as " greate fyshe ," and he translated the word ketos ( Greek ) or cetus ( Latin ) in as " whale ".

* De La Torre, Miguel A., " Liberating Jonah: Toward a Biblical Ethics of Reconciliation ," Orbis Books, 2007.

Ordered by God to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it " for their great wickedness is come up before me ," Jonah seeks instead to flee from " the presence of the Lord " by going to Jaffa and sailing to Tarshish, which, geographically, is in the opposite direction.

He begins the book by stating " Call me Jonah ," alluding to the first line of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

*" Iggeret ha-Musar ", ethical letter addressed to his son ( in the " Sefer ha-Yir ' ah ," or " Iggeret ha-Teshuvah ," of Jonah Gerondi )

Kate is a lovely redhead, and Jonah is a " red-blooded male ," and the book is full of Jonah's thoughts on the subject regarding Kate's lovely figure, as well as what they do together, in detail.

In " Super Sloppy Slime Off ," two out of three teams ( each team had three contestants ), Jessica led one team and Jonah led the other, would stand under a trough filled with slime.