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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.
 16{i}And 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,{/i}
 17{i}because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!{/i}
 18{i}Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?{/i} (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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Num. 11:15• 15{i}And 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.{/i} (Num. 11:15)
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Num. 20:3• 3{i}And the people contended with Moses,{/i} and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! (Num. 20:3)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4{i}And{/i} he 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; {i}and said{/i}, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, 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 giveth he light to the wretched one,{HR}And life to the bitter [in] soul;
 21Who long for death, and it [is] not,{HR}And dig for it more than for hid treasure; (Job 3:20‑21)
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Job 6:8‑9• 8O that my request might come,{HR}And that God would grant my longing,
 9That it might please God to destroy me,{HR}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.
 16{i}And 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,{/i}
 17{i}because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!{/i}
 18{i}Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?{/i} (Jer. 20:14‑18)
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Phil. 1:21‑25• 21For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die gain;
 22but if to live in flesh, this to me [is] worth while; and what I shall choose I know not.
 23But I am perplexed by the two, having the desire for departing and being with Christ, for it is very far better;
 24but remaining in the flesh is more necessary on your account;
 25and having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and abide 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,{HR}Death rather than these bones: I would not live on;
 16I loathe it: let me alone; my days are vanity. (Job 7:15‑16)
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Eccl. 7:1• 1A [good] name is better than precious ointment;{HR}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. And I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case, for [it were] good for me to die rather than that anyone should make empty 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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