{"id":31691,"date":"2025-05-04T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=31691"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:04:04","slug":"dreaming-killer-whales-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/dreaming-killer-whales-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwertwale kommen in der Bibel nicht vor \u2013 und Jona\u2019s Wal auch nicht"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Killer whales are not in the Bible. Neither, in the Hebrew, is the whale that everybody remembers. That is worth knowing before reaching for any meaning, because the most famous sea creature in Scripture is a translation. Jonah&#039;s fish The Hebrew is plain: Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah (Jonah 1:17). The words are dag gadol \u2014 great fish. No species, no whale. The Greek of Matthew 12:40 uses k\u0113tos, a general word for a sea\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer whales are not in the Bible \u2014 and neither is Jonah&#039;s whale, which the Hebrew calls simply a huge fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[224],"class_list":["post-31691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-biblical-dream-interpretation"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11554,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/jonah-meaning-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":31691,"position":0},"title":"Is Jonah in the Bible? 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