Meaning & History
Form of Jonah used in the Greek Bible. It is also the form used in the Latin New Testament.
Related Names
Rootyona
VariantIona(Biblical Latin)
Other Languages & CulturesYounis, Yunus(Arabic) Younes(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Yunis(Azerbaijani) Jonah, Jonas(Biblical) Yona(Biblical Hebrew) Jonáš(Czech) Jonas(Danish) Jonas(Dutch) Jonah(English) Joonas(Estonian) Jónas(Faroese) Joona, Joonas(Finnish) Jonas(French) Iona(Georgian) Jonas(German) Yona, Yonah(Hebrew) Jónás(Hungarian) Jónas(Icelandic) Yunus(Indonesian) Giona(Italian) Yunus(Malay) Jonas(Norwegian) Younes(Persian) Jonasz(Polish) Iona(Russian) Jonáš(Slovak) Jonás(Spanish) Jonas(Swedish) Yunus(Turkish) Younus(Urdu)
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Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g2495, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g2495.
