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Bible in Basic English

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

New American Standard Bible

Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

King James Version

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Holman Bible

The men of Nineveh believed in God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.

International Standard Version

The people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important.

A Conservative Version

And the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

American Standard Version

And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Amplified

The people of Nineveh believed and trusted in God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth [in penitent mourning], from the greatest even to the least of them.

Darby Translation

And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Julia Smith Translation

And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

King James 2000

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth--from the greatest of them {to the least important}.

Modern King James verseion

And the people of Nineveh believed God. And they called a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them.

NET Bible

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

New Heart English Bible

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

The Emphasized Bible

And the people of Nineveh believed in God, - and proclaimed a fast, and clothed themselves in sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even unto the least of them.

Webster

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

World English Bible

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the men of Nineveh believe in God, and proclaim a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even unto their least,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So the people
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

of Nineveh
נינוה 
Niyn@veh 
Usage: 17

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

a fast
צם צום 
Tsowm 
Usage: 26

and put
לבשׁ לבשׁ 
Labash 
Usage: 111

שׂק 
Saq 
Usage: 48

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

of them even to the least
קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

References

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Context Readings

The People Of Nineveh Repent At Jonah's Proclamation

4 And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh. 5 And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least. 6 And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

Cross References

Luke 11:32

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

Daniel 9:3

And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

Joel 1:14

Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

Joel 2:12-17

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

Matthew 12:41

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.

Exodus 9:18-21

Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

Ezra 8:21

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

Jeremiah 31:34

And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

Jeremiah 36:9

Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:1

Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near,

Jeremiah 42:8

And he sent for Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were still with him, and all the people, from the least to the greatest,

Acts 8:10

To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

Acts 27:25

And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

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