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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 bare 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 the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
 17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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Num. 11:15• 15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. (Num. 11:15)
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Num. 20:3• 3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! (Num. 20:3)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away 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 misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid 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 me the thing that I long for!
 9Even that it would please God to destroy 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 bare 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 the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
 17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
 18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)
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Phil. 1:21‑25• 21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
 22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
 23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
 24Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
 25And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; (Phil. 1:21‑25)
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Jonah 4:8• 8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to 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, and death rather than my life.
 16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. (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: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. (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.