Jonah 1:4 — compare English translations
Compare translationsJonah 1:4 in 3 English versions, beneath the original-language interlinear. Each original word links to its lexicon entry, so you can weigh the renderings against the morphology yourself. Full word study →
וַֽיהוָ֗ה
Yᵉhôvâh
H3068
LORD
הֵטִ֤יל
ṭûwl
H2904
to hurl
רֽוּחַ
rûwach
H7307
spirit
גְּדוֹלָה֙
gâdôwl
H1419
great
אֶל
ʼêl
H413
to
הַיָּ֔ם
yâm
H3220
sea
וַיְהִ֥י
hâyâh
H1961
to be
סַֽעַר
çaʻar
H5591
tempest
גָּד֖וֹל
gâdôwl
H1419
great
בַּיָּ֑ם
yâm
H3220
sea
וְהָ֣אֳנִיָּ֔ה
ʼŏnîyâh
H591
ship
חִשְּׁבָ֖ה
châshab
H2803
to think
לְהִשָּׁבֵֽר
shâbar
H7665
to break
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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World English Bible Public Domain
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
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King James Version Public Domain
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea and a great storm happened on the sea, so that the ship was thinking to be broken apart.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).