Ἰωνᾶς
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See also: Ἴωνας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.ɔː.nâːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i.oˈnas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.oˈnas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.oˈnas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.oˈnas/
Proper noun
Ἰωνᾶς • (Iōnâs) m (genitive Ἰωνᾶ); first declension
- Jonah, a given name, famously held by the Old Testament prophet to Nineveh, swallowed by a large fish. Also, the father of Jesus' disciples Peter and Andrew.
Inflection
Descendants
- Greek: Ιωνάς (Ionás)
- → Arabic: يُونُس (yūnus)
- → Latin: Iōnās, Jōnās
- → Old Armenian: Յովնան (Yovnan) (or from Classical Syriac)
References
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2495 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible