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( É᾿ùíᾶò , for the Heb. Jonah), the Graecized form of the name of three men in the Apocrypha and New Testament.
1. The prophet JONAH (2 Esdr. 1, 39; Tob_14:4; Tob_14:8; Mat_12:39-41; Mat_16:4; Luk_11:29-30; Luk_11:32).
2. A person occupying the same position in 1Es_9:23 as ELIEZER in the corresponding list in Ezr_10:23. Perhaps the corruption originated in reading àìéòéðé for àìéòæø , as appears to have been the case in 1Es_9:32 (compare Ezr_10:31). The former would have caught the compiler's eye from Ezr_10:22, and the original form Elionas, as it appears in the Vulg., could easily have become Jonas.
3. The father of the apostle Peter (Joh_21:15-17). In Joh_1:42 the name is less correctly Anglicized "Jona" (some MSS. have É᾿ùÜííçò ). A.D. ante 25. SEE BAR-JONA. Instead of É᾿ùíᾶ (genitive) in all the above passages, good codices have É᾿ùÜííïõ or É᾿ùÜíïõ , which latter Lachmann has introduced into the text. Perhaps Jonas is but a contraction for Joannas (Luk_3:27), which is the same as John.