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jonah   (TTS Sound)

The noun jonah has 3 senses

• Jonah -- ((Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land)


• jonah, jinx -- (a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him)


• Jonah, Book of Jonah -- (a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale)