Jonah and whale
Prophet devoured, survived
Jonah and the whale refers to the biblical story in which the prophet Jonah, fleeing God's command to preach to Nineveh, is swallowed by a great fish and survives three days in its belly before being vomited onto shore.
The phrase evokes themes of divine intervention, inescapable duty, or unlikely survival: He emerged from bankruptcy like Jonah from the whale.
- bibleAuthoritative reference work
- Old TestamentPre-Christian biblical canon
- swallowedPassed through throat
- bellyFront midsection
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
swallowed whole · prophet · sea · storm · Nineveh · ship · sailors · cast lots · depths · ocean · three days · God · disobedience · running away · repentance · vomit · leviathan · miracle
- Bible for kidschildren's Bible, illustrated Bible, Bible stories, baby Jesus, David and Goliath
- Bible StoriesAdam and Eve, David and Goliath, Noah's Ark, nativity, creation story
- religious children's booksSunday school books, devotionals, devotional stories, bedtime prayers, religious tales
- biblical miracleswalking on water, water into wine, raising Lazarus, calming the storm, loaves and fishes
- parablesprodigal son, Good Samaritan, mustard seed, lost sheep, sower
- biblical literalisminerrancy, infallibility, literal reading, biblical authority, young earth
confinement vs. freedom narratives
Jonah and whaleliberation
Release from constraint
resurrection · deliverance · freedom · open sea · escape