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Jonah 2:1–4

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THEN Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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From verse 1

  1. Lamentations 3:53–56Rank 1 from verse 1
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    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

    54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

    55¶ I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

    56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

  2. Psalms 130:1–2Rank 2 from verse 1
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    1OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

    2Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

  3. Psalms 91:15Rank 3 from verse 1
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    15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

  4. Job 13:15Rank 4 from verse 1
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    15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  5. Isaiah 26:16Rank 5 from verse 1
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    16Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

  6. Psalms 50:15Rank 6 from verse 1
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    15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

  7. James 5:13Rank 7 from verse 1
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    13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

  8. 2 Chronicles 33:11–13Rank 8 from verse 1
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    11¶ Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

    12And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

    13And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

  9. Acts 16:24–25Rank 9 from verse 1
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    24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

    25¶ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

  10. Hosea 5:15–3Rank 10 from verse 1
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From verse 2

  1. Psalms 18:4–6Rank 1 from verse 2
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    4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

    5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

    6In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

  2. Psalms 120:1Rank 2 from verse 2
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    1IN my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

  3. Psalms 34:6Rank 3 from verse 2
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    6This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

  4. Psalms 86:13Rank 4 from verse 2
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    13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

  5. Psalms 88:1–7Rank 5 from verse 2
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    1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

    2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

    4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

    7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

  6. 1 Samuel 30:6Rank 6 from verse 2
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    6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

  7. Hebrews 5:7Rank 7 from verse 2
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    7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

  8. Matthew 12:40Rank 8 from verse 2
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    40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

  9. Psalms 116:3Rank 9 from verse 2
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    3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  10. Psalms 22:24Rank 10 from verse 2
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    24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

  11. Psalms 4:1Rank 11 from verse 2
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    1HEAR me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

  12. Genesis 32:7–12Rank 12 from verse 2
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    7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

    8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

    9¶ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

    10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

    11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

    12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

  13. Isaiah 14:9Rank 13 from verse 2
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    9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  14. Luke 22:44Rank 14 from verse 2
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    44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

  15. Psalms 16:10Rank 15 from verse 2
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    10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

  16. Psalms 61:2Rank 16 from verse 2
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    2From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

  17. Psalms 65:2Rank 17 from verse 2
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    2O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

  18. Acts 2:27Rank 18 from verse 2
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    27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

  19. Psalms 142:1–3Rank 19 from verse 2
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    1I CRIED unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.

    2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  20. 1 Samuel 1:16Rank 20 from verse 2
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    16Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

  21. Genesis 32:24–28Rank 21 from verse 2
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    24¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

    25And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

    26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

    27And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

    28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

From verse 3

  1. Psalms 42:7Rank 1 from verse 3
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    7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

  2. Lamentations 3:54Rank 2 from verse 3
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    54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

  3. Psalms 69:1–2Rank 3 from verse 3
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    1SAVE me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

    2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  4. Psalms 69:14–15Rank 4 from verse 3
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    14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

    15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

  5. Psalms 88:5–8Rank 5 from verse 3
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    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

    7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

    8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

  6. Jonah 1:12–16Rank 6 from verse 3
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    12And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

    13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

    14Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.

    15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

    16Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.

From verse 4

  1. Psalms 31:22Rank 1 from verse 4
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    22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  2. Psalms 5:7Rank 2 from verse 4
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    7But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

  3. 2 Chronicles 6:38Rank 3 from verse 4
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    38If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

  4. Isaiah 38:17Rank 4 from verse 4
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    17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

  5. 1 Kings 8:38–39Rank 5 from verse 4
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    38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

    39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

  6. Daniel 6:10Rank 6 from verse 4
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    10¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

  7. Jeremiah 7:15Rank 7 from verse 4
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    15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

  8. 1 Kings 8:42Rank 8 from verse 4
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    42(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

  9. 1 Kings 8:48Rank 9 from verse 4
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    48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

  10. 1 Kings 9:7Rank 10 from verse 4
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    7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

  11. Ezekiel 37:11Rank 11 from verse 4
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    11¶ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

  12. Isaiah 38:10–14Rank 12 from verse 4
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    10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

    12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

  13. Isaiah 49:14Rank 13 from verse 4
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    14But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

  14. Jeremiah 15:1Rank 14 from verse 4
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    1THEN said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  15. Psalms 77:1–7Rank 15 from verse 4
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    1I CRIED unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

    2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

    3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

    4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

    5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

    6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

    7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Jonah 2:1

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Jonah 2:2

COMBINED MEANING

cried

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1. Called out, shouted, proclaimed, warned, wailed, or otherwise uttered, often loudly. 2. Appealed, prayed, complained, or called for help, justice, or attention.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

reason

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A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

heard

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Sense 1: Perceived by the ear. Sense 2: Received or learned by report. Sense 3: Listened to, regarded, or heeded. Sense 4: Favourably attended to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hell

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Sense 1: A place beneath, associated with the dead, destruction, and confinement. Sense 2: The place of punishment and torment, described as hell fire and fire that never shall be quenched. Sense 3: By figure, the depths, pains, or destructive power of death and overwhelming affliction.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Jonah 2:3

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

cast

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1. To throw, send, put, lay, or direct a person or thing into, upon, around, toward, or away from a place, or into a stated condition. 2. To put away, reject, expel, remove, overthrow, or bring down. 3. To put forth or use a lot for choosing, dividing, or assigning. 4. To form an object by pouring molten material into a mould. 5. To shed, drop, or bring forth young, fruit, leaves, or flowers. 6. To raise, form, or prepare a bank, mount, trench, or way. 7. In "cast ... in his teeth," to reproach or charge something against him. 8. As a noun, the distance something may be thrown.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

deep

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Sense 1: Great in depth, or a place far beneath the surface. Sense 2: The sea, an abyss of waters, or deep waters. Sense 3: Profound, hidden, or difficult to reach or understand.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

midst

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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

seas

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Great gathered bodies of water, including named salt waters, large lakes, and the waters collectively distinguished from dry land.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

compassed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of compass, meaning to go around, surround, enclose, or encircle.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

about

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1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

waves

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Sense 1: Moving ridges or swells of water. Sense 2: Figuratively, overwhelming troubles or forces.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

passed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pass, meaning to go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jonah 2:4

COMBINED MEANING

cast

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1. To throw, send, put, lay, or direct a person or thing into, upon, around, toward, or away from a place, or into a stated condition. 2. To put away, reject, expel, remove, overthrow, or bring down. 3. To put forth or use a lot for choosing, dividing, or assigning. 4. To form an object by pouring molten material into a mould. 5. To shed, drop, or bring forth young, fruit, leaves, or flowers. 6. To raise, form, or prepare a bank, mount, trench, or way. 7. In "cast ... in his teeth," to reproach or charge something against him. 8. As a noun, the distance something may be thrown.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sight

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1. The act or power of seeing. 2. A thing seen, view, or appearance. 3. Presence or observation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yet

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1. Up to or at the present or stated time; still. 2. At some future time. 3. Nevertheless; however. 4. In addition; further.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

look

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Sense 1: To direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed. Sense 2: An appearance, countenance, expression, or aspect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

again

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Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

toward

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1. In the direction of or in relation to. 2. Approaching. 3. Inclined or ready.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

holy

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Sense 1: Morally pure, righteous, undefiled, and separate from evil; supremely so of God. Sense 2: Hallowed, consecrated, set apart, devoted, or belonging to God or sacred use; distinguished from what is common, profane, or unclean.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

temple

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Sense 1: A sacred house, building, or place devoted to the worship or presence of God or an idol. Sense 2: Christ's body, expressly called the temple of his body. Sense 3: A believer's body, or believers collectively, called the temple of God or of the Holy Ghost. Sense 4: The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, expressly called the temple of the city.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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1:17¶ Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

2:1THEN Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,

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2:2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

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2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

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2:4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

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2:5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

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