إِنَّآ أَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَيْكَ كَمَآ أَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ نُوحٍ وَٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰٓ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَإِسْمَٰعِيلَ وَإِسْحَٰقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَٱلْأَسْبَاطِ وَعِيسَىٰ وَأَيُّوبَ وَيُونُسَ وَهَٰرُونَ وَسُلَيْمَٰنَ وَءَاتَيْنَا دَاوُۥدَ زَبُورًا
Quran glossary · draft
يُونُس
Jonah
Jonah, a named recipient of revelation and messenger whose people came to faith.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4
Lemmas: يونس
Forms: يُونُسَ
Occurrence examples (4 of 4)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.
وَإِسْمَٰعِيلَ وَٱلْيَسَعَ وَيُونُسَ وَلُوطًا وَكُلًّا فَضَّلْنَا عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
فَلَوْلَا كَانَتْ قَرْيَةٌ ءَامَنَتْ فَنَفَعَهَآ إِيمَٰنُهَآ إِلَّا قَوْمَ يُونُسَ لَمَّآ ءَامَنُوا۟ كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمْ عَذَابَ ٱلْخِزْىِ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَمَتَّعْنَٰهُمْ إِلَىٰ حِينٍ
وَإِنَّ يُونُسَ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered all four occurrences of the unrooted proper name يُونُس. Jonah appears in two coordinated lists of favored recipients of revelation, his believing people are uniquely identified in 10:98, and 37:139 directly declares him one of the messengers. These contexts converge on one named prophetic person. Case variation does not alter the referent. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.