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Jonah

noun

(Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land.

A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him. Synonym: jinx.

A book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale. Synonym: Book of Jonah.

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"Jonah" Quotes from Famous Books

... rouseabouts and climb upon my knee; To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it's up to me To give you some instruction like—a kind of Christmas tale— So name your yarn, and off she goes. What, "Jonah and the Whale"? ...

— Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses • A. B. Paterson

... stolen of the anathema. Again Saul, by drawing lots, found that his son Jonathan had eaten honey (1 Kings 14:58, sqq.): Jonas, when fleeing from the face of the Lord, was discovered and thrown into the sea (Jonah 1:7, sqq.): Zacharias was chosen by lot to offer incense (Luke 1:9): and the apostles by drawing lots elected Matthias to the apostleship (Acts 1:26). Therefore it would seem that divination by lots is ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... him. I thought it was the hand of God, which plucked me, like David, or Jonah, or some such person, out of the seething billows. But I didn't think of there being a man behind." Then, after a ...

— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

... book to be avoided or to be treated in a rather "jocose" manner. To raise a laugh on the vaudeville stage, a Biblical quotation has only to be produced, and the weary comedian, when he is at a loss to get a witty speech across the footlights, is almost sure to speak of Jonah and ...

— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan

... each individual. The man-hauling party came up just before the worst of the blizzard started. The dogs alone were comfortable, buried deep beneath the drifted snow. The sailors began to debate who was the Jonah. They said he was the cameras. The great blizzard was brewing ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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