Jonah and the Whale Word Search
The book of Jonah runs to only four chapters, one of the shortest in the Old Testament. Nineveh was a real Assyrian city, on ground near the modern city of Mosul, and the story of Jonah and the great fish still holds up in Sunday school.
Jonah and the Whale word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- fish
- jonah
- prayer
- prophet
- sailors
- sea
- ship
- storm
- whale
- wind
Jonah and the Whale word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- dry land
- fish
- jonah
- nineveh
- overboard
- prayer
- prophet
- sailors
- sea
- ship
- storm
- swallowed
- three days
- whale
- wind
Jonah and the Whale word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- city
- dry land
- fish
- jonah
- mercy
- message
- nineveh
- overboard
- prayer
- prophet
- repent
- sailors
- sea
- ship
- storm
- swallowed
- tarshish
- three days
- whale
- wind
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Words in the Jonah and the Whale word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- jonah
- Prophet who sailed away instead of obeying his orders.
- whale
- Common name people give the creature that swallowed Jonah.
- fish
- The Hebrew text names a great fish, not a whale.
- ship
- Cargo boat Jonah boarded at the port of Joppa.
- sea
- Water where the storm caught the sailors' ship.
- storm
- Violent weather that threatened to break the ship apart.
- wind
- Great wind sent over the sea after Jonah fled.
- sailors
- Crew who prayed, threw cargo out, then questioned Jonah.
- prayer
- Jonah prayed from inside the fish before he was released.
- prophet
- Person sent with a message from God to a city.
- nineveh
- Large Assyrian city Jonah was sent to warn.
- swallowed
- What the great fish did to Jonah at sea.
- three days
- Time Jonah spent inside the fish.
- dry land
- Where the fish put Jonah back out again.
- overboard
- Sailors threw Jonah into the sea at his own word.
- tarshish
- Distant port Jonah tried to reach by ship.
- repent
- What the people of Nineveh did after hearing Jonah.
- message
- Short warning Jonah carried through the city streets.
- city
- Nineveh was so large it took days to cross.
- mercy
- Kindness shown to Nineveh, which left Jonah annoyed.
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