Jonas

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Hebrew.

    "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

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"Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952."

Etymology

From Latin Iōnās, from Koine Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”). Doublet of Jonah.

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