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11 ; 12:8 ; 14:22 , 30 ; 15:14 , 29 Nu 6:10 (all P ); חֲרֵי יֹונִים dove’s dung 2 K 6:25 ( Kt , yet v. Gei Urschrift 409 ); in various similes: Ephr. is כְּיֹונָה פֹּותָה like a silly dove Ho 7:11 (allowing itself to be snared); sim. of retun of exiles, like eager flight of doves 11:11 , of ships with white outspread sails Is 60:8 ; אֵבֶר כַּיֹּונָה ψ 55:7 ; v. also כַּנְפֵי יֹונָה 68:1 4; sim. of fugitive Moab Je 48:28 ; also כְּיֹונֵי הַגֵּאָיֹות Ez 7:16 like the doves of the valleys (but on text v. C o, who emends כיונים הֹוגִיֹּות , but regards phr. as gloss); sim. of mourning כְּקֹול יֹונִים Na 2: 8; without קֹול , הגה כיונים Is 38:1 4; 59:11 (from mournful note); fig. of beauty (only Ct): עֵינַיִךְ יֹונִים thine eye are (those of) doves Ct 1:1 5; 4:1 , v. also v 1 2; term of endearment, יֹונָתִי my dove Ct 2:14 ; 5:2 ; 6:9 . Elsewhere only ψ 56:1 (title) יֹונַח אֵלֶם רְחֹקִים ( עַל ) prob. name of melody: To ‘the dove of distant terebinths’ (read אֵלִים for אֵלֶם ); v. אֵלֶם supr. p. 48, and Bae ψψ, p. xvii ).—On sanctity of dove among Semites, v. RS Sem i. 202, 275 .

II. יֹונָה S 3123, 3124, 3238 TWOT 854a, 873 GK 3433, 3434, 3435 n.pr.m. prophet, according to 2 K 14:25 he was הַנָּבִיא , son of אֲמִתַּי , from גַּת הַחֵפֶר , and predicted the recovery of Isr.’s territory which Jerob. II effected; he is also the principal figure of the Book of Jonah: 1:1 ( בֶּן־אֲמִתַּי , v 3, 5 , 7 , 15 2:1 (×2), 2 , 11 ; 3:1 , 3 , 4 ; 4:1 , 5 , 6 (×2), 8 , 9 .

III . יֹונָה S 3123, 3124, 3238 TWOT 854a, 873 GK 3433, 3434, 3435 v. יָנָה Pt.

יָוָן S 3120 TWOT 855 GK 3430 n.pr. gent. Ionia(ns), Greece ( Gk. Ἰάονες (i.e. orig. Ἰάϝονες ), v. also Ö infr .; OPers. Yauna Spieg APK 237; Assyrian Iamanu (Iavanu) Dl Pa 248 ff. COT Gloss Egyptian Y a-v en-(n)a , v. WMM 369 f. cf. also 24 ff. ; v. especially on this word Sta De Populo Javan 1880 ) Ionians , as traders Ez 27:13 , Ö Ἐλλάς (named with תּוּבַל , מֶשֶׁךְ ; in v 12 תַּרְשִׁישׁ , in v 14 תֹּוגַרְמָה ); cf. יְוָנִי ( adj. gent .) infr. ; as distant, Is 66:19 , Ö Ἑλλάς (with תַּרְשִׁישׁ , פּוּל , לוּד , תּוּבַל , and הָאִיִּים הָֽרְחֹקִים ; list to be emended from Ö Sta ib. 5 ff. ); called ‘son’ of Japhet Gn 10:2 ( P ) = 1 Ch 1: 5, and ‘father’ of אֱלִישָׁא , תַּרְשִׁישׁ , כִּתִּים and רֹדָנִים (so read for

RS W. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites. OPers. Old Persian. OP also (in Che OP)= Origin of Psalter. Spieg Altpersische Keilinschriften.

Sta B. Stade.


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