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Amittai (Hebrew: אֲמִתַּי, IPA English: æ'mɪtaɪ), a biblical character, was the father of Jonah the prophet. He was also a native of Gath-hepher. Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The Prophet Jonah, as depicted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel Jonah (יוֹנָה Dove, Standard Hebrew Yona, Latin Ionas, Tiberian Hebrew Yônāh) was a person in the Biblical Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, the son of Amittai, from the Galilean village of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth. ...


The name means my truth in Hebrew.[1]


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  1. ^ http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=amittai

This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...


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Stories and Direct Quotes.... - °Jona-Amittai (506 words)
Jona war in Wirklichkeit schon ein "Vermißter" in dem Moment, wo Jona seine Aufenthaltsstelle änderte, und Amittai ihn dort gar nicht erwartete.
Amittai würde nicht mehr gewußt haben, wohin sein Sohn gereist ist.
Falls Amittai nicht alarmiert wurde, würde er seinen Sohn Jona nie gesucht haben, wenn er dachte, daß dieser auf der geplanten Reise war von der er sprach.
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