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God

Also called LORD, Father, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, JEHOVAH, Judge, Fathers, Ancient

Mentioned in 8,587 verses across 64 books, first in Jonah 1:1. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

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In the Bible

All 29 verses in Jonah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Jonah

  • Jonah 1:1

    Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,

  • Jonah 1:3

    Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

  • Jonah 1:4

    Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

  • Jonah 1:6

    The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

  • Jonah 1:9

    “I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

  • Jonah 1:10

    Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

  • Jonah 1:14

    So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”

  • Jonah 1:16

    Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.

  • Jonah 1:17

    Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

  • Jonah 2:1

    From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

  • Jonah 2:2

    saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

  • Jonah 2:6

    To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

  • Jonah 2:7

    As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

  • Jonah 2:9

    But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

  • Jonah 2:10

    And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

  • Jonah 3:1

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

  • Jonah 3:3

    This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

  • Jonah 3:5

    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

  • Jonah 3:8

    Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

  • Jonah 3:9

    Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

  • Jonah 3:10

    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

  • Jonah 4:2

    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

  • Jonah 4:3

    And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

  • Jonah 4:4

    But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

  • Jonah 4:6

    So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.

  • Jonah 4:7

    When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

  • Jonah 4:8

    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

  • Jonah 4:9

    Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

  • Jonah 4:10

    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

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Events

Events the dataset lists God as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 4004 BC
    Creation of all thingsGenesis 1:1–2:3
  2. c. 4004 BC
    Creation of Adam and EveGenesis 2:4–25 · at Eden
  3. c. 4004 BC
    The FallGenesis 3:1–24 · at Eden
  4. c. 3875 BC
    God curses CainGenesis 4:11–16 · at Eden, Nod
  5. c. 2468 BC
    God decides to destroy every living thingGenesis 6:1–7
  6. c. 2400 BC
    God instructs Noah to build the arkGenesis 6:8–7:5
  7. c. 2347 BC
    God makes a covenant with NoahGenesis 8:20–9:17
  8. c. 1921 BC
    Abrahamic CovenantGenesis 12:1–3
  9. c. 1897 BC
    Sodom DestroyedGenesis 18:20–19:29 · at Sodom, Gomorrah
  10. c. 1491 BC
    Ten Commandments GivenExodus 19:1–20:17 · at Mount Sinai
  11. no date
    The Holy Spirit is promisedActs 1:4–5 · at Olivet
  12. no date
    Jesus ascends to HeavenActs 1:6–11 · at Olivet

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning to be strong; (2) of ’Eloah_, plural _’Elohim. The singular form, Eloah, is used only in poetry. The plural form is more commonly used in all parts of the Bible, The Hebrew word Jehovah (q.v.), the only other word generally employed to denote the Supreme Being, is uniformly rendered in the Authorized Version by “LORD,” printed in small capitals. The existence of God is taken for granted in the Bible. There is nowhere any argument to prove it. He who disbelieves this truth is spoken of as one devoid of understanding (Ps. 14:1).

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