Jonah, however, started out to flee to Tarshish from GOD’s service. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went aboard to sail with the others to Tarshish, away from GOD’s service.
In their fright, the sailors cried out, each to his own god; and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make it lighter for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the vessel where he lay down and fell asleep.
The captain went over to him and cried out, “How can you be sleeping so soundly! Up, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will be kind to us and we will not perish.”
Those aboardbThose aboard Heb. “They.” said to one another, “Let us cast lots and find out on whose account this misfortune has come upon us.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
They said to him, “Tell us, you who have brought this misfortune upon us, what is your business? Where have you come from? What is your country, and of what people are you?”
The men were greatly terrified, and they asked him, “What have you done?” And when the men learned that he was fleeing from GOD’s service—for so he told them—
Word-by-Word Analysis
וייראו
233
האנשים
406
יראה
216
גדולה
48
ויאמרו
263
אליו
47
מהזאת
453
עשית
780
כיידעו
120
האנשים
406
כימלפני
240
יהוה
26
הוא
12
ברח
210
כי
30
הגיד
22
להם
75
Jonah 1:11
Gematria: 2389
ויאמרואליומהנעשהלךוישתקהיםמעלינוכיהיםהולךוסער
they said to him, “What must we do to you to make the sea calm around us?” For the sea was growing more and more stormy.
Then they cried out to GOD: “Oh, please, ETERNAL One, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life. Do not hold us guilty of killing an innocent person! For You, O ETERNAL One, by Your will, have brought this about.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקראו
323
אליהוה
57
ויאמרו
263
אנה
56
יהוה
26
אלנא
82
נאבדה
62
בנפש
432
האיש
316
הזה
17
ואלתתן
887
עלינו
166
דם
44
נקיא
161
כיאתה
436
יהוה
26
כאשר
521
חפצת
578
עשית
780
Jonah 1:15
Gematria: 1335
וישאואתיונהויטלהואלהיםויעמדהיםמזעפו
And they heaved Jonah overboard, and the sea stopped raging.