虎鲸不在圣经中——约拿的鲸鱼也不在

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’s fish The Hebrew is plain: Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah (Jonah 1:17). The words are dag gadol — great fish. No species, no whale. The Greek of Matthew 12:40 uses kētos, a general word for a sea…