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Jonah 3:2–6

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Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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From verse 2

  1. Ezekiel 2:7Rank 1 from verse 2
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    7And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

  2. Jeremiah 1:17Rank 2 from verse 2
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    17¶ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

  3. Jonah 1:2Rank 3 from verse 2
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    2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

  4. Jonah 3:3Rank 4 from verse 2
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    3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

  5. Ezekiel 3:17Rank 5 from verse 2
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    17Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  6. Jeremiah 15:19–21Rank 6 from verse 2
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    19¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

    20And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

    21And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

  7. John 5:14Rank 7 from verse 2
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    14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

  8. Matthew 3:8Rank 8 from verse 2
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    8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

  9. Zephaniah 2:13–15Rank 9 from verse 2
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    13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

    14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

    15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

From verse 3

  1. Genesis 22:3Rank 1 from verse 3
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    3¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

  2. Matthew 21:28–29Rank 2 from verse 3
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    28¶ But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

    29He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.

  3. Psalms 80:10Rank 3 from verse 3
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    10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

  4. Genesis 30:8Rank 4 from verse 3
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    8And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

  5. Psalms 36:6Rank 5 from verse 3
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    6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

  6. 2 Timothy 4:11Rank 6 from verse 3
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    11Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

From verse 4

  1. Deuteronomy 18:22Rank 1 from verse 4
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    22When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

  2. Jeremiah 18:7–10Rank 2 from verse 4
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    7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

    8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

    9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

    10If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

  3. 2 Kings 20:1Rank 3 from verse 4
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    1IN those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

  4. 2 Kings 20:6Rank 4 from verse 4
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    6And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

  5. Jonah 3:10Rank 5 from verse 4
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    10¶ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

From verse 5

  1. Luke 11:32Rank 1 from verse 5
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    32The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

  2. Daniel 9:3Rank 2 from verse 5
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    3¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

  3. Joel 2:12–17Rank 3 from verse 5
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    12¶ Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

    13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

    14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

    15¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

    16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

    17Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

  4. Matthew 12:41Rank 4 from verse 5
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    41The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

  5. 2 Chronicles 20:3Rank 5 from verse 5
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    3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

  6. Joel 1:14Rank 6 from verse 5
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    14¶ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,

  7. Exodus 9:18–21Rank 7 from verse 5
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    18Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

    19Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

    20He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

    21And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

  8. Acts 27:25Rank 8 from verse 5
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    25Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

  9. Acts 8:10Rank 9 from verse 5
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    10To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

  10. Hebrews 11:1Rank 10 from verse 5
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    1NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

  11. Hebrews 11:7Rank 11 from verse 5
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    7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

  12. Jeremiah 31:34Rank 12 from verse 5
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    34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

  13. Jeremiah 36:9Rank 13 from verse 5
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    9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

  14. Ezra 8:21Rank 14 from verse 5
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    21¶ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

  15. Jeremiah 42:1Rank 15 from verse 5
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    1THEN all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

  16. Jeremiah 42:8Rank 16 from verse 5
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    8Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

From verse 6

  1. Esther 4:1–4Rank 1 from verse 6
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    1WHEN Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

    2And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

    3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

    4¶ So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

  2. James 4:6–10Rank 2 from verse 6
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    6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

    7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

    8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

    9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

    10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

  3. Daniel 9:3Rank 3 from verse 6
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    3¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

  4. Job 2:8Rank 4 from verse 6
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    8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

  5. Ezekiel 27:30–31Rank 5 from verse 6
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    30And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

    31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

  6. James 1:9–10Rank 6 from verse 6
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    9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

    10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

  7. Jeremiah 6:26Rank 7 from verse 6
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    26¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

  8. Luke 10:13Rank 8 from verse 6
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    13Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

  9. Matthew 11:21Rank 9 from verse 6
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    21Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

  10. Jeremiah 13:18Rank 10 from verse 6
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    18Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

  11. Job 42:6Rank 11 from verse 6
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    6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  12. Lamentations 3:29Rank 12 from verse 6
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    29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

  13. Micah 1:10Rank 13 from verse 6
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    10¶ Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

  14. Psalms 2:10–12Rank 14 from verse 6
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    10Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

    11Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

    12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Jonah 3:2

COMBINED MEANING

arise

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1. To rise, stand, get up, or move upward from a lower, lying, seated, fallen, or inactive position. 2. To begin, emerge, appear, come into being, or come forward. 3. To take action, intervene, or undertake the stated work. 4. To rise from death; to return to life.

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COMBINED MEANING

bid

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Sense 1: To command, direct, or request. Sense 2: To invite or call. Sense 3: To speak or pronounce a greeting, as in bid farewell or bid God speed.

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Jonah 3:3

COMBINED MEANING

arose

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1. Rose, stood up, got up, or moved upward from a lower, lying, seated, fallen, or inactive position. 2. Began, emerged, appeared, came into being, or came forward. 3. Took action, intervened, or undertook the stated work. 4. Rose from death; returned to life.

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COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

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

COMBINED MEANING

exceeding

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Very great, abundant, intense, extensive, or beyond ordinary measure or degree; exceedingly.

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journey

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Sense 1: Travel from one place to another; a course or period of travel. Sense 2: To travel from one place to another.

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DEFINED WORDS

Jonah 3:4

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began

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Past-tense or past-participial form of begin (to have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence).

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enter

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To go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.

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COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

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

COMBINED MEANING

journey

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Sense 1: Travel from one place to another; a course or period of travel. Sense 2: To travel from one place to another.

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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

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.

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COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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

DEFINED WORDS

Jonah 3:5

COMBINED MEANING

people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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believed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of believe. Sense 1: To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded. Sense 2: To trust or place confidence in.

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COMBINED MEANING

proclaimed

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Announced, declared, or made known openly or publicly, often with authority.

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

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fast

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Sense 1: Firm, fixed, or secure. Sense 2: Moving quickly. Sense 3: A period or act of abstaining from food. Sense 4: To abstain from food for a time.

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

COMBINED MEANING

put

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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be.

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put on

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1. To place upon, clothe, or cover. 2. To assume a character, identity, conduct, or condition.

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on

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1. At, upon, or in contact with the named place, object, side, or time. 2. Toward, against, concerning, depending upon, or directed to the named person or thing. 3. Forward or continuing; in joined expressions such as go on, put on, and lay hold on, the other words supply the particular action.

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COMBINED MEANING

even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

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Jonah 3:6

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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.

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COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

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

COMBINED MEANING

king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

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COMBINED MEANING

arose

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1. Rose, stood up, got up, or moved upward from a lower, lying, seated, fallen, or inactive position. 2. Began, emerged, appeared, came into being, or came forward. 3. Took action, intervened, or undertook the stated work. 4. Rose from death; returned to life.

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laid

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Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.

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

COMBINED MEANING

robe

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A kind of gown or long loose garment worn over other dress, particularly by persons in elevated stations.

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COMBINED MEANING

covered

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Had a covering placed or spread over; hidden, concealed, enclosed, overlaid, clothed, sheltered, or occupied over the surface or extent of something.

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COMBINED MEANING

sat

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Was seated, took a seat, remained seated, or occupied a seat or place.

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

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.

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COMBINED MEANING

ashes

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Sense 1: The powdery residue left after burning. Sense 2: A sign of mourning, humiliation, or ruin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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3:1AND the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

3:2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

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3:3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

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3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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3:5¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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3:6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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3:7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

3:8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

3:9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

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