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The Places of Jonah

Jonah names 3 places; Nineveh, Tarshish and Joppa most often. 3 of them can be put on a map, 2 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of Mesopotamia and Media with the places named in Jonah. Every place is listed in the table below.35°E40°E45°E50°E30°N35°NNinevehJoppaNinevehJoppaN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Mesopotamia and Media, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 1 place lies beyond the plate and is in the table.

Every place in Jonah

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Nineveh1:2, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4, 3:5, 3:6, 3:7, 4:11OpenBible.infoHigh
TarshishBeyond this plate.1:3, 4:2OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 305)
Joppa1:3OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.