What are the Bible verses using the word whale?

Answer 1

Most versions do not translate any word as whale, but may use a phrase such as 'sea monsters instead. Generally it is thought to mean any large sea creature that is not a fish. Others such as the KJV do use the word in the following places:

Genesis 1:21

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. Matthew 12:40

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.

Answer 2

"Whale" and variants thereof appear four times in the Project Gutenberg text of the King James version:

* "whales" in Genesis 1:21, * "whale" in Job 7:12, * "whale" in Ezekiel 32:2, and * "whale's" in Matthew 12:40.

Note that "whale" does not appear in the Book of Jonah, which refers to a "great fish"; however, Matthew 12:40 says that Jonah was in "the whale's belly" for three days.

Answer 3

Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. Mat 12:40 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.

Answer 4

In the King James Version....

In all its grammatical variations - the character string "whale" occurs 4 times

The word "Whale":-

* Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? * Eze 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

The word "Whale's":-

* Mat 12:40 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.

The word "Whales":-

* Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Answer 5

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