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Jonah 4

Jonah 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore now, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
, I beseech thee, my life
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
from me; form it is better
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
for me to die
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
than to live
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
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Jer. 20:14‑18• 14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
 15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!
 16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,
 17because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
 18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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Num. 11:15• 15And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness. (Num. 11:15)
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Num. 20:3• 3And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! (Num. 20:3)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers. (1 Kings 19:4)
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Job 3:20‑21• 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
 21Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; (Job 3:20‑21)
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Job 6:8‑9• 8Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!
 9And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! (Job 6:8‑9)
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Jer. 20:14‑18• 14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
 15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!
 16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,
 17because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
 18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)
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Phil. 1:21‑25• 21For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;
 22but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.
 23But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better,
 24but remaining in the flesh is more necessary for your sakes;
 25and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith; (Phil. 1:21‑25)
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Jonah 4:8• 8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. (Jonah 4:8)
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Job 7:15‑16• 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
 16I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. (Job 7:15‑16)
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Eccl. 7:1• 1A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. (Eccl. 7:1)
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1 Cor. 9:15• 15But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast. (1 Cor. 9:15)
• He could not bear to live if his word were not accomplished to the letter. He would rather see that word carried out rigorously in the extermination of all the Ninevites than that it should seem to fail. How proud, selfish, and destructive is the impatient heart even of a godly man! (“Jonah 4” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.