Jonah 4:6
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| Overview - Jonah 4 | |
| 1 | Jonah repining at God's mercy, |
| 4 | is reproved by the type of a gourd. |
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Jonah 4:6 (King James Version)
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
- the Lord
- 1:17 Psalms 103:10-14
- gourd
- or, palmcrist. Hebrew Kikajon.
- [Qyqywn
,] probably the palma Christi, called {kiki,} or {kouki,} by the Egyptians, and {Elkherod} by the Arabs, from which caster oil is extracted. - It is as large as the olive tree, has leaves like those of a vine, sometimes as broad as the brim of a hat, and is of very quick growth.* So. Es 5:9 Pr 23:5 Isa 39:2 Am 6:13 Lu 10:20 1Co 7:30
- was exceeding glad
- Hebrew rejoiced with great joy.