Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ionás/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ionás/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ionás/

Proper noun

Ἰωνᾶς • ‎(Iōnâs) m ‎(genitive Ἰωνᾶ); first declension

1. Jonah, a given name, famously held by the Old Testament prophet to Nineveh, swallowed by a large fish. Also, the father of Jesus' disciples Peter and Andrew.

Inflection

Descendants

• Arabic: يونس
• Greek: Ιωνάς ‎(Ionás)
• Latin: Iōnās

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2495”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979