Jonas
Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]
Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.
Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Jonas'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/jonas.html. 1897.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
JONAS . 1. Esther 9:1 Esther 9:1 = Ezra 10:6 Jehohanan , Nehemiah 12:23 Johanan. 2. Esther 9:23 Esther 9:23 = Ezra 10:23 Eliezer . 3. 2Es 1:39 the prophet Jonah 4:1-11 . See John, No. 6.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [4]
Jo'nas. (a dove).
1. The prophet Jonah. Matthew 12:39; Matthew 12:40-41; Matthew 16:4.
2. Father of Peter. John 21:15-17. See Jona.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
(Ι᾿ωνᾶς , for the Heb. Jonah), the Graecized form of the name of three men in the Apocrypha and New Testament.
1. The prophet JONAH (2 Esdr. 1, 39; Tobit 14:4; Tobit 14:8; Matthew 12:39-41; Matthew 16:4; Luke 11:29-30; Luke 11:32).
2. A person occupying the same position in 1 Esdras 9:23 as ELIEZER in the corresponding list in Ezra 10:23. Perhaps the corruption originated in reading אליעיני for אליעזר, as appears to have been the case in 1 Esdras 9:32 (compare Ezra 10:31). The former would have caught the compiler's eye from Ezra 10:22, and the original form Elionas, as it appears in the Vulg., could easily have become Jonas.
3. The father of the apostle Peter (John 21:15-17). In John 1:42 the name is less correctly Anglicized "Jona" (some MSS. have Ι᾿ωάννης ). A.D. ante 25. (See Bar-Jona). Instead of Ι᾿ωνᾶ (genitive) in all the above passages, good codices have Ι᾿ωάννου or Ι᾿ωάνου, which latter Lachmann has introduced into the text. Perhaps Jonas is but a contraction for Joannas (Luke 3:27), which is the same as John.
